Middlesex
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The Voluntary Examination Confession
and Information of Judah Botibol< no role > Admitted
an Evidence on his Majesty's Behalf Taken
before Us two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in
and for the said Country this 12th. day of October 1785

Who being on his Oath saith that about five
Weeks ago he together with Philip Phillips< no role > his Partner took
a House in Narrow Street Ratcliff that on the seventeenth
of September Last about two O'Clock in the Morning Charles
Young< no role > a Man called Black Joe and three other times whose
name Informant does not know but should know them if he was
to see them again Called Informant and his partner Philips
up and Informed them they had a Quantity of Red Wood to Sell
and asked them if they would buy it when they agreed for half
a Guinea a hundred when they all five assited in Sanding for
which Philip's by Consent of Informant paid Young seven
Guineas in the Presence of the other four that about six O
Clock in the same Morning the said Young and Black Joe
Brought eight sticks more of Red Wood Weighing two hundred
Weight which they agreed to give a Guinea for but they not
having any more Cash at that time they [..] and
Left the Wood in the Bach Kitchen. That the next Morning
said Phillips and Informant went to John Henry Ford< no role > No.17
Broad Street Old Gravel Lane , and Informant him they had
a Quantity of Red Wood to selll when they agreed for sixteen
shillings a hundred. That about seven O'Clock the same Morning
the said Ford brought a Cart to Informants House when the
carman Ford Phillips and Informant, assisted in loading the
said Cart that at the time the said Wood was delivered to Ford
there was no bill of Parcells Given nor any asked for that between
nine and ten O'Clock on the same Morning Informant and his said
Partner went to Fords House for the Money for the said Wood.
Ford told them the wood was Stoped by Nichols, and that he
was going to the Justices at ten O'Clock to Limand it and if they
would give him a Bill of Parcells he Could get it again that
at the request of the said Ford Informant gave a Bill of Parcell
for the said Wood, at one pound four Shillings pr. hundred that
Informant at that time had received no Money of Ford for the
said Wood, but has since Received of him [..]
times four Guineas Further Saith that on eighth Instant
Charles Young< no role > and the above four men Called Informant and
Phillips up between two and three OClock in the Morning and
Informed them they had got some Hump which they asceed
Buy but not knowing the Value of it did [..] for any