aforesaid Francis Collier< no role > otherwise Tew by appointment at Wapping
Dock when the said Francis Collier< no role > otherwise Tew Produced a Cable
which he informed him this Informant he the said Francis Collier< no role >
otherwise Tew had just cut away from a Barge laying there which he
shewed this Informant and they afterwards attempted to take an Anchor
whereto the said Cable (as the said Francis Collier< no role > otherwise Tew told
this Informant) had been fastned but the said Anchor being so buried
in Coals they could not effect it, that they carried the said Cable to
a Rope Ground belonging to the aforesaid John Holiday< no role > and in the
Morning about Six o'Clock sold it to the aforesaid John Holiday< no role > for
Two Shillings: And this Informant further saith that on Friday night
the Fifteenth of this Instant May about Twelve o'Clock he met the aforesaid Francis Collier< no role >
otherwise Tew and John Clemmock otherwise Perry at the aforesaid
Rope Ground when they produced Three Headfast which they told him
they had cut away from Lighters at Wapping New Stairs and Wapping Dock and left
them with this Informant who sold them the next day of the aforesaid
John Holiday< no role > for Two Shillings and Six Pence. And this Informant
further Saith that on a ceratin Wednesday Night he thinks was about a
Fortnight since the said Francis Collier< no role > otherwise Tew John Clemmock
otherwise Perry and one John Cole< no role > and this Informant took a large Box
commonly called a Luggage Boat from Humston's Road at Wapping
new Stairs and carried her to John Boddy< no role > 's Wharf above Executer
Dockwhere the said Francis Collier< no role > otherwise Tew
John Clemmock otherwise Perry and John Cole< no role > feloniously broke open a Warehouse
belonging to the said Boddy with an Iron Instrument they had
provided for that purpose and stole thereof a large Quantity of Hemp
and some Ropes which they put into the said Boat the Painter or Head
rope whereof this Informant was holding during this Transaction that
they brought the Boat to a Place calle the Dung Wharfe where they
unloaded the Boat and carrying the Hemp and Ropes to the Rope
Ground of the said John Holiday< no role > flung the same over his Pales
where it lay until the Morning of the next day when he believes the
same was sold to the aforesaid John Holiday< no role > but what he gave for
it this Informant doth not or can set forth he not being present
at the sale but this Informant acknowledges he received fifteen
Shillings