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The Examination of Richard Wild< no role > of Sunbury
in the said Countynow in Custody on Suspicion
of having feloniously stolen and carried away
three Quarters of Malt the Property of Thomas
Long< no role > , from his Malt house at Sunbury aforesaid
in the night between Saturday the Eleventh and
Sunday the twelfth of September last [..] taken before me
One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace , in
and for the said County of Middlesex , the
Seventh day of October 1784

Who Saith that on the Eleventh Instant at night, he
went with Robert Warren< no role > to fetch Six Sack's of
Malt which this Examinant had the day before
seen lying in Parcel of bushes in Hampton
field ; that they took an empty Cast, which they
saw standing in Sunbury for that purpose; that
they accordingly fetch'd it down to the Waters
side opposite French Street, when this Examinant
had left his boat for that purpose, when Edward
Collet< no role > and William Thorpe< no role > : came up to themthat
he then carried the Malt in the boat to his own house
that he kept it there some days, and whether there
were any Marks upon the Sacks he does not know
that at out a Week afterwards he sold the Malt,
but will not say to whom nor when the Sacks
now are.

Taken before me the
Day & Year abovewritten

Richard Tayler< no role >

Richd Wild< no role >