Middlesex to wit

The Information's of John
Baguley of No 150 Fleet Street ,
Hatter and Hosier and Thomas
DennisonClerk to Messrs.
Pybus & Company of New Bond
Street Bankers taken before me
this 3d. day of December 1787

Who being upon Oath Severally say and first the said
John Baguley< no role > for himself says that on Saturday the
3rd. day of November last the Person now present who
calls himself William Ludlam< no role > but who at that time
called himself Walkin came to his Shop and
Purchased a quantity of Stockings and Hats to the
Amount of Fifteen Pounds and upwards and in
Payment for the same published to this Informant
the Bill of Exchange now produced purporting to be
the Bill of Exchange of J. Storr to Thos. Carr< no role > Esquire
or Order at seventy days after date for the
Payment of Twenty Pounds on Messrs. Pybus and
Co: New Bond Street London dated Newark 3rd.
September 1787 and purporting to be excepted on the
21st. October 1787 by J Pybus That Informant
told said Ludlam that he would not deliver the
Goods till he had made an enquiry respecting the
Bill to which said Ludlam consented and left
the Bill for that purpose And this Informant further
Says that from the enquiries he has made at the
House of said Pybus and Co: he hath reason to
suspect and does suspect and believe that the said
Ludlam published the same to this Informant
knowing it to be Forged with an intention to defraud
him