Middlesex , to wit,

The several Informations
of Decimas Hayward< no role > Clerk in the South
Penny Post Office in Saint Mary Overs's
Church Yard in the County of Surry
John Gibbs< no role > Letter Carrier in
the same Office and Thomas Mann< no role > and Thomas Butts< no role >
Clerks in the Chief Penny Post Office
Throgmorton Street London Taken
upon Oath before me Sir Sampson
Wright One of His Majesty's Justices
of the Peace in and for the said County
this fourth Day of December 1786.

The Informant Decimus Hayward for
himself saith that the Letter which arrived from the
Country at the General Post Office London on Friday
the Twentieth of October last for Places within the
Delivery of the said South Penny Post Office were
brought to this Informant's Office about half after Twelve
o'Clock at Noon on that Day from the Chief Penny
Post Office in Throgmorton Street . that they were
given to the Informant John Gibbs< no role > to the sorted
that about Two o'Clock in the Afternoon said
Gibbs shewed this Informant a Letter directed
for Isaac Fawcett< no role > Merchant London and told
him it was not for Fawcett & Co. of Vauxhall
but fancies it was for Mr. Fawcett of Pancras
Lane in the City of London & desired this
Informant to write Pancras Lane upon it that
this Informant did so and then gave it back
to said Gibbs

And the Informant John Gibbs< no role > for
himself saith that on receiving back from the
Informant Hayward the letter above described
he