Middlesex
to Wit
The Examination of
James Barnard< no role >
late Clerk
to Messrs: Popplewell and Stayan of Scots
Yard
Cannon Street
in the City of London
Brokers charged with felony taken before
me this 6th. Day of December 1786
Who saith that on Monday the 4th of this instant December
he was in the Compting House of Messrs. Popplewell and Styan
when he observed said Mr. Styan give two Bank Notes one
for 300£ and the other of £200 to George Hardy< no role >
another
Clerk Belonging to said Messer: Popplewell and Styan with
Directions to carry the same to Messrs: Munday and Walker
Merchants in New Broad Street
That he this Examinant contrived
to meet said Hardy in his way and prevailed on him
to give him said Notes he this Examinant assuring said
Hardy that he would deliver said Notes to said Munday
and Walker. And this Examinat further says that
when he had got possession of said Notes as aforesaid
he applied at the Bank of England
where he got
the said Notes charged and received other Notes for
them and twenty pounds in Money with which he
the same afternoon sat off for Dover with intent
to go abroad
Taken before me the [..] day and
Year aforesaid}
James Barnard< no role >
Sampn Wright< no role >
Thos. Styan< no role >