The Information of John Bleaden< no role >
Waiter
at the Antigallican
Coffee house
Threadneedle Street
this 11th Day of Septr. 1762
.
Who being on Oath Says that he is a Waiter at the Antigallican Coffee house
in Threadneedle Street Says that last Saturday Sennight being the 28th. Augt.
about the hour of 10 in the Evening a Person who now call [..] himself John
Kello< no role >
came to the sd. Coffee house and called for Pen Ink, and Paper, and
Six penny worth of Rum and Water, then ask'd this Informt. if he cod. go on
a Message for him to Aldermanbury
, Says he told him he cod. not goe, Says
that the sd. Kello ask'd him if cod. get him a Coachman, Says that he this
Informt. told the sd. Kello he cod get him a Porter or Chairman, Says that
the sd. Kello then went out and said he cod get one himself, Says that
sd. Kello returned immediatly paid for his Rum and Water and left
Six pence to pay the Messenger he had sent, and then told this Informt.
that his Name was Rous and that if any Letter or Parcell shod. come
for him he shod. take care of it and he wod. call again, Says that the
Person who then called himself Rous, and now calls himself John Kello< no role >
did not return again, but say that atheChairman soon afterwards
came in and told him that he had been of a Message to Aldermanbury
for a Gentleman
from that house Says that he gave sd. Chairman
the Six pence left for him by sd. Kello Says that soon after this
a Person who calls himself Joseph Cotton< no role >
and who this Informt.
beleives lives in Aldermanbury
came to the sd. house and ask'd if one
Mr. Rous was there, Says he told said Cotton that a Person who called
himself Rous had been there, was gone, but left word that he wod.
return immediatly, Says that the sd. Cotton Staid about
an hour then went away, left a Paper now produced purporting
that the Parcell shod. be delivered to Mr. Rous at Hackney
the
next Day being the 29th. of Augt. Says that a Chairman now present who
calls himself Thos. Bowen< no role >
was the Man to whom he paid the six pence as aforesaid
Sworn before me the day
and Year first above writen}
[..]
John Bleaden< no role >
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