The King against James
Aldridge< no role >

Serenus Barrett< no role > of Newgate Street London Linnen Draper and John Elderton< no role > of
Featherstone Buildings Holborn Gentleman make Oath and first the said
Serenus Barrett< no role > Saith that a Commission under the Great Seal of Great Britain
having issued on the second day of November last past against the said James
Aldridge< no role > and he being declared a Bankrupt this Deponent and John Webb< no role > his
Partner on the Twenty first of the same November were duly Chosen Assignees
of the said Bankrupt Estate and Effects And this Deponent soon afterwards
went to Westborne in the County of Sussex Where the Bankrupt resided in Order
to make the most Moneys he could of the said Bankrupt Effects And this
Deponent saith That the Bankrupts Stock in Trade seized by the Messenger
under the said Commission were appraised at the Sum of One hundred twenty one
Pounds Nineteen Shillings and three pence half penny for which Sum or
there abouts they were after wards Sold And this Deponent Saith that he was
much surprized at the Smallness of the said Bankrupts Estate and on Conversing
with some of the said Bankrupts Neigbours they intimated to Deponent that they
believed unfair practices had been Used and Embeillments made the said
Bankrupt or his Family Whereupon this Deponent caused an Advertisement to
be inserted in the White hall Evening Post Offering a Reward to such Persons who
could give Information to the Sollicitors under the said Commission of any such
Concealments And the said Deponent John Elderton< no role > one of the Sollicitors under the said
Commissions Saith that on or about the fourteenth of December last he Did receive in
consequence of such Advertisement a Letter from one Stephen Fowler< no role > of Bighton
near Alresford in the County of Hants informing him and Mr. Nernon his Partner of
divers Goods and Effects which had been left with the said Fowler by the Bankrupts
wife before the Date of the said Commission and which still remained in his Custody
and the Contents of which Letter both Deponents say they beleive to be true and the
said Deponent Serenus Barrett< no role > Saith that on the Eighteenth day of December last
past the said Bankrupts finished his Examination before the Major Part of the
Commissioners named in the said Commission at Guildhall London at which
time the said Bankrupt did not deliver in any Account of the several Goods
mentioned in the said Letter or any part thereof Or of any other Goods Wares or Effects
whatsoever save and Except such as were included in the Inventory taken by the
Messengers and which were Appraised and sold for the Sum of One hundred
twenty One Pounds Nineteen Shillings and three pence half penny or thereabouts
as aforesaid And although the said Bankrupt had as this Deponent has heard
and believes been a Shopkeeper for near twenty Years and during that time had
dealt very largely in the Linnen and Haber dashery Trades he produced to the said