To the Right Honble Francis Cokayne< no role > Esquire Lord Mayor of the City of London and the rest of his Majesties
Justices in theirSession of General Gaol delivery of Newgate for the said City at Justice Hall in the
Old Bailey assembled

The Humble Prayer of John Andrews< no role >

Sheweth.

That the sd John Andrews< no role > on the 18th. day of July last by virtue of a Warrant under the
hand and Seal of Matthew Blakiston< no role > Esquire one of the Aldermen of the City of London was
committed to Woodstreet Compter by the oath of Joseph Bibby< no role > Philip Moore< no role > John Merchant< no role > &
Samuel Taylor< no role > on suspicion of being concerned with other persons unknown in uttering &
Publishing as true three several false forged and Counterfeit Wills of Charles Dunn< no role > John
Hinson< no role > and Thomas Ward< no role > Mariners belonging to the Fort St. George Indiaman knowing them
to be false forged and counterfeit

That the sd. John Andrews< no role > on the fifth day of September instant by virtue of a Warrant
under the hand and seal of Sir William Smith< no role > Knight one other of the Aldermen of the said
City of London was detained in the said Woodstreet Compter being charged upon oath of Ann
Martin Smith< no role > Wife of John Smith< no role > John Hampage< no role > & Elizabeth Rice< no role > with aiding & assisting in
forging & counterfeiting and also for attening and publishing at Gravesend in the County of
Kent as true a certain deed in Writing purporting to be a letter of Atorney from one John
Parker< no role > to Elizabeth Rice< no role > for the receipt of certain Pay Wages and Prize money
felonging to the said John Parker< no role > for his service on board his Majesties Ship the hee way
knowing the same to be false forged and counterfeit with an intent to defraud the said John
Smith who appears to be intitled to the said Pay Wages and Prize money

That the sd. John Andrews< no role > hath been since removed to his Majesties Goal of Newgate

Therefore the said John Andrews< no role > most humbly Prays that he may
at this Present Session of gaol delivery be tried bailed or
discharged for the said offences Pursuant to the statute
in such case made and provided

Jno: Andrews< no role >