The King
agst:
Gregory Geering< no role >

Robert Lewin< no role > Secretary to the Governour & Company of the
Bank of England maketh Oath that in a Letter this day received
from Peter Vitu< no role > one of the persons sent over to France by
order of the Directors of the said Governour & Company in
pursuit ofthe said John Rice< no role > (which Letter this Deponent
Saith is directed to the Governour of the Bank of England &
dated Paris nineteenth February One thousand Seven hundred
& Sixty three & this Deponent beleives the same to be of the
hand Writing of the said Peter Vitu< no role > ) the said Peter Vitu< no role >
writes and this Deponent beleives such Account to be true
that his Grace the Duke of Bedford had all the reason in the
world to beleive that the said John Rice< no role > will be delivered up by
Order of the Court of Francein ordand from the Tenour of the
said Letter this Deponent beleives the said John Rice< no role > will arrive
in England before the next Session of Oyer and Terminer to be
held for the City of London

Sworn the 23d: day of February 1763
at Justice Hall in the old Bailey }

By the Court

Rt: Lewin< no role >