Middlesex
to wit

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THE Information of Robert Wyatt< no role > of Woolwich in the County of Kent and Coal Merchant
George Tupp Clerk to John Mulward< no role > of Bromley in the said County
of Middlesex Esquire
Taken this 15th Day of May 1784 before me Peter Greene< no role > Esqr,
of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County.

Who being upon [..] their Oaths Jointly and severally say and first
the said Robert Wyatt< no role > for himself Saith that as he was driving up
the Tide on Tuesday the Eleventh day of May Instant he observed a
Skiff lying is a place called the Cove at Woolwich and on going
along side the said Skiff he discovered the feet of a person lying
under a Tilt he spoke to him and asked him what he had
got in his Skiff whereupon he got from under the Tilt and
after some Hentation told Informant he had got Rye in the
Skift. but Informant from some [..] suspecting the
same was not Honestly come by asked him of he had a Bill of
Parish of the same or know who it belonged to do both of
which Quetions the said person Answered in the Negative
That Informant them asked him of he Know to whom it was
to be [..] Delivered who answered he did not Informant then
Signifying to the said person (who is now present and Calls himself
Richard Briggs< no role > ) that he Suspected the same to have been Stolen
said to did not Know how it came into the Skiff, but that it
belonged to a man who was gone on Shore, and where name
was Joseph Goodman< no role > Whereupon Informant secured the Rye
and sacks, and delivered the said Richard Briggs< no role > into the Custody of
Henry Rident< no role > Churchwarden of Woolwich aforesaid, and that three
Sacks now produced (one of which was full of Rye) are the same
which was found in the Possession of the said Richard Briggs< no role > as
also there [..] three sacks full of Rye now in the possession of this
Informant at Woolwich aforesaid And further Saith not

And this Informant St George Tupp for himself Saith that the three facts
now here produced and also the three Sacks now full of Rye in the
Possession of the above Informant Robert Wyatt< no role > , and by him found in
the Possession of the above named Richard Briggs< no role > are the Property of the
said John Milward< no role > and that he verily believes the said Empty Sack
as also those filled with Rye and the Rye Aself was feloniously Stolen by
the above named Robert Briggs< no role > & John Goodman< no role >

Taken and Sworn the day and
Year first above written before me
Petr Green c}

Wyatt
George Joseph< no role >