The King
agt.
Richard Handford< no role > & William Camber< no role > }

Thomas Miles< no role > of the Parish of Saint Botolph Bishopsgate London Wine Merchant
William Goodwin< no role > of the Parish of Saint Bridges otherwise Saint Brides London
Gentleman and Richard Thomas< no role > Servant to the said Deponent Thomas Miles< no role > jointly
and severally make Oath and first the said Thomas Miles< no role > saith that about the fourteenth
day of July last the other Deponent William Goodwin< no role > applied to this Deponent and
represented to him that he had last a Noise of Hand which this Deponent had given
for payment of forty pounds and desired this Deponent to stop it increas it was brought
for payment And this Deponent Richard Thomas< no role > saith that he received Orders to
stop the said Note and the person when brought for payment and saith that sometime
after (to wit) about the twenty fifth or twenty seventh of July last the abovenamed
Defendent Richard Hand ford< no role > brought the same for payment but the said Mr. Miles
not being at home and this Deponent not then recollecting the Directions he received
from his said Master the said Richard Handford< no role > went away and about two Days after
the other Defendant Wiliam Camber< no role > brought the said Bill for payment which
this Deponent Stopt and the said William Camber thereupon told this Deponent
that he received it of the said Richard Handford< no role > and told him where he was and
which he found to be true and he this Deponent for a Constable and Caused then
to be apprehended to account how they came by the said Note And all the Deponent
say that both the said Defendent being taken before the Lord Mayor and it appearing
very suspicions from the Circumstances before his Lord ship that they had conspired
wrongfully to receive the Monies due upon the said Note they were both committed
And all these Deponents say that they have not as yet been able to come to the
Knowledge of any other Circumastances from the time of their Commitment in order
to prove them guilty of the said Conspirarcy And the said Deponent William Goodwin< no role >
saith that he is advised and verily beleives that the Evidence he is at present preferred
with is not by any means sufficient to prefer an Indictment against the said
Defendants for the Matters they stand committed for And that he does not decline the
some from amy Correption partiality or Favour towards both on either of the Defendants
but merely