Middlesex to Wit

The Information of Lawrence Pears< no role > on Servant
to Eleanor Fairis< no role > of Fleet Market Pawnbroker
George Johnson< no role > Servant to the Same and Thomas
Croft< no role > Esqr. of Pall Mall Banker taken
before me this 13th. day of October 1784

Who being upon Oath Say and first the said Lawrence
Pearson< no role > says that on the 19th of April last past a person now
present who calls himself Thomas Freeman< no role > came into
the said Eleanor Fairis< no role > 's Shop cheapened a Gold Watch
and agreed to give thirteen Guineas for it. That the said
Freeman gave this Informant the Promissory Note now produced
(saying it was a Draft upon his Banker) purporting to be
the Promissory Note of D. Bowes for Croft and Company, to
Mr. Thomas Wilson< no role > or Bearer for the payment of Fifteen Pounds
on Demand dated London the 4th. ofOctoberNovember 1783
and endorsed Capt. J. Freeman and desired Informant to
give him the Difference which he did amounting to one Pound
seven shillings. That the said Freeman on this Informants
observing that said Draft was on this paper said that if
was the usual Paper which they made use of That the said Freeman
agreed with this Informant provided he should not approve
of said Watch that the thirteen Pounds should be returned to him
And the said George Johnson< no role > says that he was present at the
time the said Thomas Freeman< no role > came into the said Eleanor
Fairis< no role > 's Shop and cheapened the said Watch and is very sure