Middlesex to Wit

The Information of Joseph Saunders< no role > of Whitechapel in the
said County Dealer in Old Cloaths and Simon Jacobs< no role > of
Clarks Court Gravel Lane Houndsditch taken before me
this 23rd. day of September 1786

Who being upon Oath say, and first the said Joseph Saunders< no role >
says that on Saturday hight the 29th. of July last between the hours of
nine and ten o'Clock a person now present who calls himself John
Wood< no role > came to his House and Sold to him a Watch, the inside Case
of which was plain gold, and the outside Case shagreen for one
GuineaThat in a few Minutes afterwards he went to said Jacobs
and with him Sold the [..] Watch Movements to Watchmaker in Dukes
Place for One Pound four shillingsThat he made a present of the
said shagreen outside case to said Watchmakerand sold
the inside case to a Jeweller in Dukes Place for one Pound four
shillings and Six pence, at which time said Jacobs was
presentThat on the Sunday morning following between the hours
of seven and eight o'Clock, the said Wood came again to him,
shewed him a gold Seal, Impression a head, and asked him to buy
itThat at the same time he put into this informants hand
a yellow or gilt Chain and offered it to Sale with said Seal
upon which Informant replied that he believed said Chain
belonged to the aforesaid Watch which he had bought of him
and that the same had been taken there from, to which he
answered that he had not taken it from said Watch, but that his
Brother that he had not taken it from said Watch, but that his
Brother had given it to himThat at the same time said
Wood and mea Bricklayer (brother in Law to said
Wood) came inThat said Wood privately delivered to