1693
April 15th.

The Exaiacon of [..] Joseph Heslop< no role > taken
before ye Right honoble, St. John Fleet< no role >
Knt. Lord Major of the City of London & one
of Their Matyes. Justices of the peace
for ye Sd. City This 10th. day of Aprill
Anno Dui 1693

Who being Exaied As to his way of living, & Abode, he saith
he lives at Lartington nere Barna Castle in Yorkshire, & is by
Profession A Drover is stockiner & came to London A little before last
Martinmas, with about six score head of black Cattle, Pte
of when he sold at Stamford, other Pte at setch in Norfolk,
some at Hampton Hill in Norfolk, & the rest at Hoxon in
Suffolk. After which, he came to London & has bought
& Sold severall horses, & imploy'd his servant to gett in
the moneys owing to him in the Country for his Cattle wch.
he brought out of Yorkshire , & about three or four times
he went down to his man, once within A mile of Colchester
where he reced of him about an hundred pounds, another time
he mett his man at Ipswith, where his man paid in about an
hundred pounds more, wch. he had before reced for
Stockings wch. he had sold for this Exaiant up & down in
the Country & thereabouts. Another time he mett his man
in the Hundreds of Essex, where his sd. man paid
him about ninescore pounds wch. was to other Ple of the
moneys he had reced for the Cattle brought out of
Yorkshire. All which Sumes he paid in the Country &
took bills for the like Sumes here in London. And being
askt where he reced ye one hundred pounds by him
paid to Wm Harlee< no role > of Witham in Essex Clothier , & to
John Jackson< no role > of the same place, he saith he reced, the
same of his man in the Hundreds of Essex, & carry & the
same down to Colchester to buy wooll, But not buying any
he pd the same to the sd. Harlee & Jackson Joseph Heslop< no role >

Capt coram me die
et anno predris.
John Fleet< no role > Major