The King
agt.
Edward Dickins< no role > a Prisoner

Charles Gascoigne< no role > of the City of London Merchant
maketh Oath That Edward Dickins< no role > the Prisoner was lately
employed as a Supernumerary Porter in the General Post
Office as this Deponent has been informed and verily believes
and was apprehended and committed for feloniously taking
a Bill of Exchange drawn on this Deponent and his Partner
of the Value of Twenty Pounds out of a Letter directed to
Messrs. Thomas and John Stevenson< no role > in London And this
Deponent further saith that the said Bill was sent from
Birmingham by Mr Samuel Garbett< no role > a Merchant with whom
this Deponent constantly corresponds [..]
[..] And this Deponent further saith that
in a Letter which this Deponent lately received from
the said Samuel Garbett dated from Edinburgh either the third or
the fifth Day of this Instant October the said Samuel Garbett
informs this Deponent (and which this Deponent believes to be true) that he had been for some time
and was then confined by Sickness at Edinburgh so that he
could no possibly attend the Prisoners Tryal at the then next
now present Sessions at the Old Bailey but that he would
attend at the Sessions next after And this Deponent further
saith, he is informed and doth verily believe that the said
Samuel Garbett< no role > is a very material Witness for the Crown in this
prosecution and that it is not adviseable to preferr a Bill of
Indictment against the prisoner or to proceed to a Tryal
without the Benefit of his Testimony

Sworn in Court this twenty fifth
Day of October 1758 }

Cha Gascoigne< no role >

By the Court