Hi, Thank you to all those who wrote to me about this. This is the indictment as it is written. Quote: >>1 JOHN-WEBB ELKINGTON was indicted for feloniously forging, on the 31st of August , a certain bill of exchange to the tenor and effect following, that is to say. No. 1364. £23 Oct. 11th. Birmingham, August 8th, 1801. Two months after date pay to Mr. Joseph Brown, or Order, twenty-three pounds, value received, which place to account, as advised by Spooner, Attwood, and Co.<< It obviously happened in London, however Sarah Webb and Joseph Elkington's son was a farmer of Princethorpe and I don't think it would be him and they were busy producing a family there at the time. You can read the whole story on _http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t180112021&div=t18011202-1&ter ms=Elkington#highlight_ (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t180112021&div=t18011202-1&terms=Elkington#highlight) Thank you all for your help. Regards JUDY ELKINGTON _www.elkingtonfamily.com_ (http://www.elkingtonfamily.com/)