The King agt. James Fellon

James Everdell< no role > of Serjeants Inn Chancery Lane London Gentleman and
Aaron Eaton< no role > of Chancery Lane aforesaid Shoemaker jointly and severally make
Oath and first the said James Everdell Saith that on Saturday the fourteenth day
of June last about Six or Seven in the Evening he inclosed in a Letter from himself
directed to Mr. Westron Attorney at Law at Wellington near Taunton Somersetshire
a Bank Note for twenty five Pounds and a Bank post Bill for Ten Pounds and
that he delivered such Letter with the said Bank Note and Bank Post Bill so
inclosed and sealed to the other Deponent Aaron Eaton< no role > in the Shop belonging to
his House in Chancery Lane where the said Aaron Eaton< no role > Lakes in Letters for
the General Post and at the same lane paid him eight Pence for the Postage
thereof and the said Aaron Eaton< no role > saith that from the great Number of Letters
that he receives every Post night he do's not Remember the said other
Deponents delivering him such Letter, but saith that if he did (and which he has
no doubt but he did) he this Deponent put the said Letter into the usual
place in his Shop for putting in Post paid Letters and Saith that the above
named James Fellon who was then this Deponents apprentice was all that
evening at Work in the said Shop and left this Deponents House the next
Morning (being Sunday) in order, as usual, to go to his Father's, but
instead of Returning again that night as Usual this Deponent heard no
more of him till the Friday following when he heard that his said
Apprentice was at Newport Oagnell in Bucks to which place this
Deponent immediately proceeded in pursuit of him and upon his Arrival
there he was informed to his great Surprize that the said Felton had
bought a Silver Watch and other things of Value there and had exchanged
a Twenty five Pound Bank Note there and Saith that he having secured
his said Apprentice this Deponent very Strictly examined him how he
came by the said Bank Note being then well Satisfied that he had not
come honesty by it and his said apprentice then pretended to this
Deponent that he had found the Same on Monday Night the Sixteenth
day of June in Fleet Street And the Deponent James Everdell Saith that he
having on the Second day of July received advice from the said Mr. Westron
that he had not Received such Letters this Deponent made all the Enquiry in
his Power to discover the Reason thereof and the day following Went to the
said Aaron Eatons to Make Enquiry there about the said Letter and
Represented to the said Aaron Eaton< no role > what were the Contents so inclosed in
the said Letter and the said Aaron Eaton< no role > saith that upon such Intelligence he
then had not the least doubt but that his said apprentice Felton had Stollen
the said Letter and the said Bank Note and Bank Post Bill and that the