Middlesex to wit

The Examination and Information of Samuel
Wilson< no role > taken and made on Oath before me
one of his Majestys Justices of the peace in
and for the County of Middlesex the thirteenth
day of September 1781.

Who on his Oath saith that he is a Bricklayers Labourer
and works for John Lee< no role > a Bricklayer in Bunhill Row
Saint Lukes and that on the third day of September instant
he with one Joseph Freeman< no role > a Bricklayer who likewise work
for the said John Lee< no role > were sent by Mr. Lee to repair a
House belonging to Mr. James Cranch at Bishop Benners
at Bethnal Green in the said County. That the said
Joseph Freeman< no role > and this Examinant by the Order of
William Beer< no role > the Carpenter employed in the said Repair
took the Tiling from off the Top of the House together with
about a Hundred weight of Gutter Lead which they carried
into the Yard. That on the same Evening the third of September
after this Examinant and the said Joseph Freeman< no role > had
finished there work the said Joseph Freeman< no role > proposed
to this Examinant that they should steal some of the
said Lead and sell it, which this Examinant made no
Objection to, and accordingly this Examinant and the
said Joseph Freeman< no role > took away, each of them a piece
of Lead, weighing in the whole about thirty nine Pounds
which the said Joseph Freeman< no role > proposed to this Examinant
to sell in Whitechapel . That this Examinant and the
said Joseph Freeman< no role > carried the same into Whitechapel