10,453. Have you any of these lines?-No, I have none.
10,454. In what form are they drawn?-Suppose it was to Ursula Johnston, the line would be, Pay to Ursula Johnston the value of 2s., and it is signed J. Spence.
10,455. Do you always honour these lines by supplying the party named in them with goods up to the value of the sum named in the line?-Yes, with whatever they ask for.
10,456. Do you receive many of them?-Sometimes we receive a few, but not very many; at least I do not consider it very many.
10,457. What would you consider very many?-100 in a week; I would consider that very many.
10,458. How many is it that you do receive?-I never counted them.
10,459. Would there be twenty in a week?-Sometimes not one half of that, sometimes more, and some weeks none at all.
10,460. Is that according as the business is brisk, or the reverse?- So far as I know, it is. I am under the conviction that for a month I have had no advances to pay at all.
10,461. Is there any other way in which parties who sell hosiery to Mrs. Spence, or who you have reason to believe sell hosiery to her, are paid out of the shop?-I don't quite understand the question.
10,462. Have you any other transactions with Mrs. Spence?- None with her.