Reference
QSR1816/229
Title
Information and complaint of William Rey of Harrold, shopkeeper.
Date free text
20 September 1816
Production date
From: 1816 To: 1816
Scope and Content
'Who on his oath saith that he is a shopkeeper at Harrold in the said County of Bedford, & that having occasion to make a remittance to a Tradesman in London, He, on Wednesday the fourth day of September last past enclosed a Market Harborough Bank note in a letter directed to Sales Pollard & Co Tobacconists, in Aldersgate St London, which letter was duly rec'd but the said 10£ Note was not in it - as afterwards appeared by Intelligence from the said Sales & Pollard - That this deponent, immediately wrote to stop payment of the said note at the Banking House of Esdaile & Co who immediately gave information of this loss to Mr Freeling, Secretary to the General Post Office. The number of the Note This deponent says he had taken down before he inclosed it in the letter & the letter was delivered to Jane Hartwell who was & had been together with her husband, for several years the common Carrier of Letters from Harrold to the Post Office in Bozeat a distance of near four miles - the number was 3164 & the date 6th April 1814 - After some days had elapsed without gaining any information at length on the 18th Inst he this Deponent was informed that the said Jane Hartwell had offered a Harborough Note value 10£ at the Post Office at Bozeat desiring it to be changed - He went to Bozeat & found this to be true - that he afterwards went to the womens house and asked her whose note it was that she wanted to change at Bozeat -she answered it was not Her own but that she had found it in her way to Bozeat - that she did not change it at Bozeat but at Mrs Fairy's at Harrold - That he this Deponent then called upon Mr Fariy & enquiring about the note of 10£ which his Daughter had changed for Jane Hartwell very lately he was informed by Fairy that he had paid it to Mr Coles Grocer at Olney & Fairy, after hering the Reesons of this enquiry set off the next morning for Northampton Fair where he expected to meet the said Mr Coles wherein he succeeded & after explaining to the said Coles the object of his coming Mr Coles having the said note with him, gave it up to Fairy & Fairy this day in the Presence of me the subscribing magistrate delivered it to this Deponent Wm Rey & he the said Wm Rey now maketh Oath that it is the same note which he inclosed in Letter as aftoresaid & which letter was delivered to the care of the said Jane Hartwell to be put into the Post Office at Bozeat.'
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