Middlesex to wit

The Information of James Fownes taken
before me this 2nd. day of April 1777

Who being upon Oath says that he knows James Homer< no role > now present
that he this Informant is by Trade a Button maker and that this Informant's
Wife has also worked in some Branches of the Button making Business,
that about five or six Weeks ago the said James Homer applied to this
Informant to work for him in the Business of Button making that at different
Times afterwards the said James Homer applied to this Informant and
solicited and endeavoured to persuade this Informant to go into France
where this Informant verily believes the said James Homer< no role > and
his Father are concerned in a Manufactory establishing there,
and that the said James Homer< no role > has advanced several Sums
of Money to this Informant on that Account, that the said
James Homer promised this Informant that he should have eighteen
Suillings a Week until the Tools were got ready and afterwards
a Guinea Week, and that this Informants Wife should have
eight shillings P Week, and likewise told this Informant that
Provisions Etc were much cheaper in France than here, and
that the said James Homer< no role > also gave this Informants Wife
an Order now produced to receive half a Guinea a Week
during this Informants Absence James Fownes

Sworn before me
April 2. 1777 }

J Addington