Middlesex
to wit}

John Edwards< no role > of High Street Shadwell Falesman Acknowledges him self to be indebted to our Sovereign Lord the King, in the Sum of Forty Pound
William Davis< no role > of same place Grocer Acknowledges Etc. Forty Pound
[..]

Upon Condition, That they and each of them do personally appear at the next General Quarter Sessions of the peace, to be holden for the said
County, at the Session-House on Clerken well Green, then and there the said John Edwards< no role > to prefer a Bill of Indictment,
and to prosecute the Law with Effect, and the said William Davis< no role > to give Evidence on his Majesty's Behalf
against William Simpson< no role > for feloniously Stealing taking and Carying away one pair of Black
Sattin Breeches of the Value of Six Shillings the property of the said John Edwards< no role >
Against the peace Etc
And if the Bill be found a true Bill, and returned so by the Grand Jury; that then they and each of them appear at the next Sessions
of Goal Delivery of Newgate , to be held for the County of Middlesex , at Justices Hall in the Old Bailey , then and there to prosecute and give evidence upon Indictment
And do not depart the Court without Licence. Then this Recognizance to be void, or else to remain in full Force,

Taken and acknowledged the Twentieth Day of October 1789 before me }

Peter Greene< no role >