if he know the Number when he replied he did not that
said Mendoza observed he should like to know it
for that his Chest had been broke open and he
had been robbed of two or three Notes

Sworn before me
the day and year aforesaid}
N Bond< no role >

Abram Foster< no role >

Middlesex to wit

The Information of Thomas Otway< no role >
Clerk to Messrs. Batson Stephenson and
Company of Lombard Street Bankers
taken before me this 27 [..] . day of
August 1788

Who being upon Oath says that he well [..] mbers
Pictio Spara< no role > now present being paid at their
Banking House the Sum of Two Hundred and
twenty Pounds six Shillings and two pence in
Bank Notes and Cash on Friday last That he
this Morning saw at the Bank of England a
twenty pound Bank note No. 1774 dated 22d. July
1788 and received by Mr. Howard pawn broker in
Hounsditch which Note he is very sure was one of
the Bank Notes which was paid to the said Pictio
Spara< no role > at the Banking House of said Messrs. Batson
Stephenson and Company in part of the said Two
Hundred and Twenty Pounds Six Shillings and two
Pence