_A._ We took no other Bank of England notes on that day.

_Q._ You marked them at the time you received them?

_A._ Yes, I received twenty in the forenoon, and the other eleven in the afternoon, and I marked them and paid them away the same afternoon.

_Cross-examined by Mr. Park._

_Q._ I understand you to say neither of those watches found in the possession of Mr. De Berenger is the watch you sold?

 

_A._ Neither of them.

_Q._ You wrote upon all the notes?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Those are the only seven you have seen since?

_A._ Yes.

_Mr. Gurney._ You paid them all away?

_A._ We did.

_John Bilson and Thomas Northover called again._

_Mr. Gurney._ Have the goodness to look over your book, and see whether those seven were part of the two hundred that were paid to Fearn?

[_The Witnesses examined them._]

_Mr. Bilson._ Those seven notes were part of the property paid to Fearn on the 24th of February.

_Benjamin Lance called again;_

_Examined by Mr. Gurney._

_Q._ On the 25th of February, did you give Mr. b.u.t.t a check on Prescott & Company, for .98. 2_s._ 6_d._?

_A._ On the 26th of February I did.

_Q._ Is that the check? [_shewing it to the witness._]

_A._ That is the check.

_John Isherwood sworn;_

_Examined by Mr. Gurney._

_Q._ Are you clerk to Prescott & Company?

_A._ I am.

_Q._ Look at that check, did you pay that?

_A._ I did.

_Q._ On what day?

_A._ The date of it the 26th of February, I think.

_Mr. Park._ That is an entry in your own hand-writing.

_A._ It is.

_Mr. Gurney._ Did you pay a 50_l._ note?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ What number?

_A._ No. 13,396.

_Q._ Did you pay also a forty pound note?

_A._ Yes, No. 6,268.

_Q._ Look at that, is that the .40. note?

_A._ Yes, that is the note.

_Mr. Gurney._ Mr. Miller, will you produce the .50. note? [_Mr. Miller produced it, and it was shewn to the Witness._]

_A._ This is the note.

_Mr. John Seeks sworn;_

_Examined by Mr. Gurney._

_Q._ Look at that cancelled bank note for .50. did you receive that bank note in payment from any person?

_A._ I gave change for it.

_Q._ On what day?

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