Middlesex To wit

The Information of John Barnes< no role > and Owen
Owen< no role > taken before me this 29th. day of March 1769

Who being on Oath severally say and first the said John
Barnes< no role > for himself Says that he was employed by the Revd.
Mr. Lewis of East Grinstead Sussex about the 10th. of Febry.
last to purchase some Annuties to the Amount of £300 Stock
says he purchased it accordingly, that he inclosed the Receipt
for the said Stock together with a Banker's Note now produced.
in a Letter and directed the same to the Revd. Mr. Lewis at
East Grinstead Sussex on the same day and sent the Letter
to the General Post Office , says that the Words Hugh Lewis< no role >
indorsed on the back of the said Note were not wrote on the
said Note when he put [..] it into the Letter as aforesaid,
says he has seen the Revd. Mr. Lewis write several times [..]
has received Several Letters from him that he does not
believe the Words Hugh Lewis< no role > indorsed on the back of the Said
Note to be of the hand writing of the Said Revd. Mr. Hugh Lewis< no role >
but that the same is false forged and counterfeited, and the
said Owen Owen< no role > for himself Says that a person now present
who calls himself Richard Brace< no role > published the aforesaid Note
with the Words Hugh Lewis< no role > indorsed thereon for which he let
h [..] have [..] Cloth & the Remainder in Money, and they both
for themselves say that they do believe that the said Richard
Brace< no role > published the said Note knowing the said Indorsement
on the Said Note to be false forged and counterfeited with an
Intent to cheat and defraud the said Owen Owen< no role > , and they both
Say that a Promissory Note of Geo & That Welch and Thomas
Rogers< no role > to the Revd. Mr. Hugh Lewis< no role > or Order for nine pounds