Hicks's Hall

Between

Robert Mosson< no role > Appellant
against
Samuel Lyon< no role > Respondent

Middx

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden for the County of Middx
at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street in the said County by Adjournment (on Thursday the 7th day
of July in the Eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great
Britain Etc.

Order

Whereas Robert Mosson< no role > hath at this present Session Exhibited his Petition & Appeal setting forth
that Information was made before Six John Fielding< no role > Knight & Wm. Kelynge< no role > Esqr. Two of his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace agt. the Petr. for fraudulently Erasing, Scraping out & causing to be Erased & Scraped out the Name or
Names of certain Person or Persons certain Sums Dates and other Things Alledged to be written and Printed
in a certain Probate of a Will or other Writing Stamped according to Law with intent to use such Stamp for some
other Writing Matter or Thing against the From of the Statute in such Case made and provided That said
Justices on or about the 10th. June last Convicted the Petitioner in the Sum of Twenty Pounds Whereby
the Petitioner Apprehended himself Aggrieved Whereupon at the request of the said Petitioner It is
Ordered that the Benefit of his said Appeal be saved unto him and that the Hearing and Determining
thereof be and the same is hereby Adjourned untill the next General Session of the Peace to be held of this
County and that on Noticed hereof in the mean time to be given to the said Parties they and all Persons
Concerned Do Attend the Court at Hicks's Hall aforesaid on Monday the 5th. day of September next at 9 of the
Clock in the forenoon of the same day to hear & abide the Judgement & Determination of the Court touching the sd. Petition.

By the Court
Waller

Affidt. of one of Bail

Jeremiah Egan< no role > of Martlet Court in the County of Middlesex Taylor maketh Oath
that in the Month of June last he was applied to by the said Appellant Robert Mosson< no role > (who was Clerk to
Mr. Vaughn an Attomey at Law (to become bound for Appellants Appealing at the then next Quarter Sessions
to be held for the County of Middlesex agst. a certain Conviction of the said Appellant in £20 for Erasing and
Scraping out and Causing to be Erased and Scraped out the Name or Names of certain Person or Persons certains
Sums Dates and other Things in a certain Probate of a Will or other Writing Stamped according to Law with
Intent to use such Stamp for some other Writing Matter or Thing, when this Deponent at first, greatly Objected
thereto, not knowing the nature thereof but the said Appellant much importuning this Deponent and
Assuring him that the Conviction was false and that his Appellants putting in Bail was only a
matter of Course this Deponent was at last prevailed on to become Bail for him and did enter into a Recognizance
with said Appellant and oneShugar a Glazier for his sd. Appellants (Appealing at the then next
Quarter Sessions from the Justices Conviction for the Matter aforesaid And this Deponent Saith
that said Appellant did in July last at the then Quarter Session Exhibit his Petition and Appeal in
respect to the said Conviction and that thereupon the said Appeal was Adjourned to the then next ensuing
General Sessions of the Peace for the said County And this Deponent likewise Saith that he has
been informed and verily Beleives that said Appellant soon after his Appealing as aforesaid Absconded
and went Abroad beyond Sea unknown to this Deponent, and that he hath ever since Resided out of
this Kingdom And this Deponent further Saith that he is wholly ignorant of the said Appellants
transactions concerning the assd Conviction and Appeal and totally unacquainted with any of the Matters therein
Contained respisely And therefore & by reason of said Appellants so Absconding as afsd. he this Deponent is not
able to prosecute the said Appeal, And this D [..] t. Smith he hath been informed and bels. that the sdShugar is in very low &
indigent Circumstances.