London

Barnabas Linton< no role > of Hom Court Beer Lane London Constable
maketh Oath and saith that he was on the Twenty fifth Day of
November last bound by Recognizance before John Hart< no role > Esquire one of
the Aldermen of this City to prosecute John Standley< no role > at the then next
Session to be held for the City of London for feloniously stealing out
of a Ware house at Dice Key Twenty pounds weight of moist sugar
of the [..] lue of Ten shillings and this Deponent saith that he did
attend at the Clerk of the Peace's Office and did give Instructions for
an Indictment to be made out against the said John Standley< no role > for
the said Offence, And this Deponent further saith that he did
attend on Friday the Tenth day of December at Justice Hall in the
Old Bailey at Ten after Clock in the forenoon in Order to prefer
the said Indictment to the Grand Jury when he was there informed
that the Grand Jury had been discharged the Evening before and
that he this Deponent had for forfeited his Recognizance, And this
Deponent further saith that the Jurys having been discharged
so soon was a very un usual thing and what this Deponent
humbly conceive's has not happened for many Years, And the [..]
Deponent further saith that he did not neglect to attend sooner out of any
favour or affection to the said prisoner or for any reward or [..]
or promise thereof but that he wish'd and intended to have prosecuted
the said John Standley< no role > for the said Offence and did verily believe
that Friday would have been in time for that purpose

Sworn at Justice Hall in the
Old Bailey the 12th. day of January
1780}

By the Court

Barnabas Linton< no role >