Middlesex
to wit.}

THE Information of Jeremiah Russell< no role > of Broad Street Ratcliff Cross
in the Parish of Stepney in the said County Hatter

Taken this. second Day of October one thousand seven hundred & eighty three before me Peter Greene< no role > Esquire one
of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the County.

Who being upon Oath Saith that upon Thursday the twenty fifth day
of September last between the hours of five and Six o' clock in
the Evening of the same day, an Hatt of the Value of Sixteen Shillings,
and intirely now from the Shop was brought to him by a Persons
who appeared to be a Seafaring shaw now here present and who [..] aws himself over Gibson in order to have such Hatt
cooked and Cooped, and Who left the said Hatt with this Informant
for such purpose :That this Informant having a strong
suspicion that such Hatt was stolen, made Enquiring among
several Master Hatters, Whether or not any of them had lost
such a Hatt, when one Mr. William Hatters< no role > an Hatter in
Upper East Smith field, having missed an Hatt, upon [..]
the Hatt being described to him by this Informant, (and being this
same Hatt left with this Informant by the Prisoner) owned
such Hatt to be his property, and swore that the same had
been felonionsly stolen out of his said shop, by some person
or persons unknown : And this Informant saith that when
such person called upon him for the Said Hatt. he this
Informant caused him to be [..] apprehended and
carried as to the Public office in Lower shadwell , from whence
he was committed for further Examination : And this informant
upon his Oath Saith, that he Verily believes, that such Hatt
was feloniously stolen taken and carries away by the
Prisoner, who called himself Gibson, from and out of the
Shop of the said William Hatton< no role >

Jereh Russell< no role >

Sworn
this 4th: Oct 1783
Before
John Staples< no role >
P Greene< no role >