Middlesex to wit

The Informations of William
Weller< no role > of Oxford Street Gentleman
and George Wiseman< no role > Clerk to
the Proprictors of the Morning Post
taken before me this 17th. day of
November 1787

Who being upon Oath severally say and first the said
William Weller< no role > for himself says that the Persons now
Present who calls himself Robert Bennett< no role > has been Porter
to this Informant about three Months That one part of his
Employment is to carry advertisements to the Newspapers and
paying for their insertion that for such purposes he
occationally entrusts him with such Swans of Money as shall
by necessary for so doing And that in return he has been
accustorned to deliver to him such Recipts as from his Report
he received at the different printing Offices that the Receipt
now produced dated 3d. November 1787 for 12s.6d. for an
Advertisement inserted in the Morning Post he received from
the said Bennett And that he verily believes the said Receipt
to be Forged and counterfeited And the said George Wiseman< no role >
for himself says that he perfectly recollects the Prisoner
Bennett coming to the Morning Post Office in Black
Court in Catharine Street ande like wise his Signing the
Said Receipt of 3d. November now produced and now Mark'd
12s:6d.And that he is perfectly assured at the time he
Signed it he had received only ten Shillings and Six
pence and signed if for no more than ten Shillings and
Six pence and that the Figures as they now Stand is
a Forgery

Sworn before me the
day and Year aforesaid}
Weller
Geo. Wiseman< no role >
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