he put it (with the other Letters to be returned) into
the Box for Returned Letters, in Order to be sent back
to the Chief Penny Post Office in Throgmorton Street
( [..] )

And the Informant Princes Hayward
for himself further saith that about half past seven
o'Clock the same Evening he took out of the
Return Box the Letters so put therein by said
Gibbs. that the said Letter directed to Mr. Fawcett
was amongst them that there were fifteen in
Number and that the Postage thereof amounted
to Eight Shillings and four Pence which he wrote
upon a Ticket and tied the Letters in a Bundle
together and put them into the Chief Letter
Box in Order for the Letter Carrier to take them
to the Chief Office. That about eight o'Clock
the same Evening the Prisoner James Dobson< no role >
took away the said Letters and Ticket from this
Informant's Office to carry to the Chief Office

And the Informant Thomas Mann< no role > [..] for
himself saith that the Prisoner James Dobson< no role >
brought the Returned Letters from the south Office
to the Chief Office in Throgmorton Street on Friday
the Twentieth of October last between Eight and
Nine oClock in the Evening And the Informant Thomas Butts< no role > for himself saith that upon this Informants
examining them the next Morning with the Ticket he found
the Letters to be fourteen in Number instead of fifteen
and that the Amount of the Postage upon them was only
Six Shillings and two Pence instead of Eight Shillings and
four Pence as charged in the Ticket

Taken and all sworn the Day
and Year First aforesaid Before me}

Decimus Hayward
John Gibbs< no role >
Thomas Mann< no role >
J Butts

Sampn Wright< no role >