The King
agt
Anne Hawks< no role >
otherwise Anne Hawkswell< no role >
otherwise Anne Mathews< no role >
John Jesse< no role >
of the General Post Office
in the City of
London
Gentleman
Maketh Oath That on or about the
Eighth day of February last The Post Boy carrying the
West Mail of Letters from the General Post Office
in
London
aforesaid to Stainer in the County of Middlesex
was Attacked and Robbed near Turnham Green
in the
said County by a Single High wayman on Horseback
who look from the said Post Boy and carried off the Exeter
and Plymouth Bags of Letters as this Deponent has
been informed and does verily believe And this Depont
further Saith That he has been informed and does
verily believe that there were several Letters in the
said Baggs containing Bank Notes Bank Post Bills
and Bills of Exchange to a large Amount particularly
in one Letter Bank Post Bill to the value of Five
hundred pounds for the use of the poor Sufferers by fire
at Creditors and in another Letter Bills of Exchange
Drawn from abroad on several Merchants in London
to the Amount of Two thousand three hundred pounds
and upwards and in another Letter a Bank Note for
the Sum of [..] Twenty pounds which said several
Letters with the said several Bills, inclosed were as this
Deponent verily believes put into the Post Office
and
were in the Exeter and Plymouth Bags at the time
they were taken from the Post Boy at the time the
said Bags were taken from him in the manner afsd
And this Deponent further Saith That the said Anne
Mathews the Prisoner
was sometime age apprehended
at [..]
Ostend
in Flanders
for offering to pass Several
of the said Bank Bills of Exchange or other Bills and for
Disposing of one of the said Bank Notes as this Deponent
has been informed and does verily believe And