Middlesex to wit.

The Information of Joseph Acton< no role > and Samuel Acton< no role >
taken before me this 3rd. Day of May 1784.

Who on their Oath say and first the said Joseph Acton< no role > says that
he is Servant to the said Samuel Acton< no role > Distiller in Drury Lane .
That on the 22nd. of March last Stephen Tissington< no role > of the Plough
Alehouse at Mile end Old Town paid this Informant at this House
at Mile end Old Town aforesaid the Sum of Five Pounds
in Part of Payment of £56..15..0. in which sum at that time Prisoners
to the said Payment of Five Pound of he stood Indebted to the said
Samuel Acton< no role > That whom said Tissington paid this Informant
the said Five pounds, this Informant gave him the Receipt
now produced except that the principal Sum was then Five
Pounds and not Fifty Pounds which now appears; and
that the Figures were then £5.0.0 and not £50.0.0
which now appear on the said Receipt And further says that
the principal Sum of the said Receipt has been attered and
forged since this Informant gave it to said Tissington as aforesaid
And the said Samuel Acton< no role > says that on the 1st. Day of May
Instant this Informant received the Receipt now produced & as it
now appears, from the said Stephen Tissington< no role > who, at that
time told this Informant that he had paid the said Joseph
Acton< no role > Fifty Pounds. And further says he doth believe
and suspect that the said Stephen Tissington< no role > hath attend forged and
Counterfeited the Principal Sum of the said Receipt from Five Pounds
to Fifty, and that he published it to this Informant knowing it to
have been so attered forged and counterfeited.

Sworn before me this 3rd. Day
of May 1784}

Addington

Joseph Acton< no role >
Saml: Acton< no role >