Middlesex To wit

The Information of the Right Honourable
Lieutenant General Henry Seymour Conway< no role >
Esqr. taken before me this 11th. day of
March 1768

Who being on Oath says that on or about the 18th. day of February 1768
he received of John Larpent< no role > Esqr . first Clerk in one of the Secretary of
State's Offices one Bank note of five hundred pounds value and seven
of one hundred pounds value each, that he put the said Bank notes into
one of the Drawers of his Writing Table situated in a Room in his
house commonly called his Library, says he saw the said Bank
Notes in the said Drawer either on Monday the last day of February
or on Tuesday the first day of March, says that on Wednesday the
second of March between 5 & 6 o'Clock in the Morning he was
called up by a Maid Servant and was told that his house was
on fire, says he arose immediately and went down Stairs, that he
immediately pereceived the fire to be in the aforesaid Room called
the Library, says that by the Assistance of Engines the afore-
-said fire was soon extinguished, says that as soon as it was
possible the aforesaid Writing Table was wheeled out of the said
Library into the Garden, that he then and there pulled out the
Drawer in the said Table into which he had put the said Notes, says
that he found the Papers in the said Drawer apparently as he
had left them, that he took them all out and put them into
his Pocket imagining that the said Bank notes were safe
but says that searching the said papers soon after he discovered
that the said Bank Notes were missing, says that after the
fire was extinguished he examined the Nature and Situation
of the Damage done by it as well as the Places where it
appeared to have begun from which he has been induced