Middlesex
(to wit)}

The joint & several Information of Francis Lewis Cardinaux< no role >
of Craven Buildings in the Parish of St
Mary Le' Strand in the County of Middlesex Coal
Merchant and Thomas Morris< no role > of the same place
Gentleman

These Informants each speaking for himself only and being
first duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists severally say
And first the said Francis Lewis< no role > Cardinaux for himself saith
that on some Day between the twelfth & the twenty first Days
of October last past one Alexander Sesson did being to him
this Informant a promissory Note of Hand of Thomas Bradshaw< no role >
last of Charles Street Covent Garden Linen Draper Haberdasher bearing date
the 12th. Day of October 1771 (being the same Note now shewn &
produced to him this Informant) whereby the said Thomas
Bradshaw< no role > two Months after date promised to pay to Mr Samuel
Pritchard< no role > [..] Or Order One hundred pounds Value received And
which said Note appeared to be indorsed by the said Samuel
Pritchard< no role > and one James Banks< no role > And the Said Mr Jesson informed
this Informant that the said Promisory Note was the Property of
Mr James Bolland< no role > (who was then a Stranger to this Informant)
And that the said James Bolland< no role > wanted the said Note discounted
And this Informant sayth that on or about thetwenty firstnineteenth
Day of said October the said James Bolland< no role > (of one John Hanford< no role >
of London [..] ) met thisDeponentInformant at a Coffee house in
King Street Covent Garden And the said Note so indorsed being
then produced the said James Bolland< no role > [..] received Value
of this Informant for the same And this Informant sayth
that previous to this Informant so paying Value for the said
Note the said James Bolland< no role > told this Informant that [..]
James Banks< no role > whose Name appeared so indorsed on the said Note
as aforesaid was a Publican in Rathbone place of a Person of