Middlesex To wit

The Information of Samuel Potts< no role >
Esqr . Comptroller of the general
Post office Taken before me this
7th: day of Septr. 1761

Who being on Oath says that he has this day examined
the Drawer of Daniel Carrington< no role > , a Sorter belonging to the said
Office, that he there found a great Number of Foreign Letters
detained which shou'd have been sent to Americai and doth
west Indies , and other places and shou'd have been
dispatched long agoe, says that he verily beleives that the
said Carrington his received the Postage for the said
Letters, and that he has kept thence back in order to
Defraud the Post- Office of the said Money, and
that he beleives of the Sum [..] of which the
Post Office has been Defranded as aforesaid
amounts to five Pounds and upwards

Sworn before me
the day and Year first
above writen}

[..]

Sam Cotts< no role >