Middlesex To wit

The Information of James Lambert< no role > Mary
Heppingstall< no role > and Roger Jones< no role > taken before me
this 30th. day of October 1771

Who being upon Oath says and first the said Roger Jones< no role > for himself says
that on Monday the 7th. of October Instant a great fire happened in Ironmonger
Row Old Street by which his house and others were burnt that during the
Confusion occasioned by the said fire this Informant last a great Number of
things and amongst the rest a Gown belonging to Mary Pritchard< no role > now present,
which was in this Informants house, and the said Mary Heppingstall< no role > for
herself says that last Friday was a Week a person now present who calls
himself John Read< no role > brought the Gown now produced ripped in pieces to this
Informant for her to make two Slips of it for the said John Read< no role > 's Daughter
and that the Said John Read< no role > took off the white Buttons belonging to the said
Gown when he left it with her, and the said James Lambert< no role > for himself
says that he is very sure the Gown now produced is the property of the
said Mary Pritchard< no role > , and the said Roger Jones< no role > further says that he does
suspect and verily believe that the Said John Read< no role > did feloniously take
and carry away the said Gown

Sworn before me
October 30. 1771}

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Jos Lambert< no role >
Mary Hepingstall< no role >
Roger Jones< no role >