Middlesex
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The Voluntary Examination of John
Say< no role > taken on Oath the seventh day of
October 1785 before me one of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex

Who on his Oath Saith That on a Saturday night
which was on the first night of Bartholomew fair
he last then being a Hackney Coachman on the Stand in
Cornhill London a Man came to him and ordered
him to drive to Old Broad Street and the Man got on
the Coach Box with this Examinant and this
Examinant stopt the Coach by the Order of the said
Man at a Fruiteres shop the Corner of a Court
near the Church in Broad street aforesaid, That
the said Man got off the Box went to the opposite
side of the way near the Rails of the Excise
Office and there spoke to two men and then returned
to this Examinant and bid him follow him
with his Coach which this Examinant did into
Winchester street , and there stopt about four
doors down the street on the left hand from
Broad street and this Examinant was then
directed by the said man to stay there till he returned

That in about Ten Minutes [..] after said Man
with two other came to him and brought with
then a large Bale or something like it and
opened the off door of the Coach and put the Bale
in, And the man whom had hired this Examinant
got on the Coach Box with him, and the other
we men got into the Coach and shut the Coach
door themselves at the same time refusing to
let this Examinant shut the Coach door, And
the man on the Box Directed this Examinant
to drive down Winchester Street London Wall , up Coleman Street
into Cheapside , down Queen street into
Thomas Shod to the Sign of the White Bear