Middlesex to Wit

The Information of Hugh Fitzpatrick< no role > of the
Angel in Old Street taken before me this 10th: day
of February 1781

Who being upon Oath that he called on Monday last at
the house of a person now present who Calls himself William Foriester< no role >
in a Court in Saint Johns Lane Smithfield That the said Foriester
asked him if he knew any person that would buy any Indigo as
he had a Quantity to Sell, to which this Informant replied, that
he had an acquaintance one Hitchcock a Man who lived in
Whitecross Street who was a Judge of it That said Foriester then
gave this Informant a Quantity of Indigo now produced of about
one Ounce weight, which he this Informant took to said, Mr.
Hitchcock, who told him that there was not a sufficient Quantity
for him to give his Opinion Says that on the next day (Tuesday)
the said Foriester calledagainat this Informants house and
asked him if he had shewed the Gentleman he mentioned, the
Indigo, he the day before had left with him, and what the
Gentleman had said to him That the said Foreister then said, that
he would send a greater Quantity, and that the Same Evening
a Quantity of Indigo of about one or two pound weight was
sent to this Informants house by the said Foriester, who sent his
Apprentice with it and further says, that on the Thursday following
the Wife of the said Foriester came to this Informants house and
desired this Informants to say "that he had the said Indigo of
one Vio as or a Custom house Officer" and begged "that he this
Informant would not say he had it of her said Husband That
he want to the said Hitchcocks house (having observed that some
Indigo was advertised) and requested him to let him have