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Image 313 of 68123rd September 1786


this Informant a single land Silver Watch [..]
[..] ,and asked him what he thought said Watch
was worth, and said that he was Sure that it was his Brothers who
was then present & who immediately said that it was his property
and that he wanted to Sell itThat said Bricklayer said he
had bought it his Brothers for half a Guinea and his own, old
Watch, That some Conversation then passed between them, but
this Informant did not buy itThat on the Monday Evening following
this Informant told said Simon Jacobs< no role > to go to one Joseph
[..] Chants
< no role > the Cheequer , in Cheequer Alley , Moorfields in
search of said Wood, one Thomas Pacinter< no role > , Thomas Carpenter< no role > and Thomas
Porter
< no role > , in order to see, if said Watch, could be bought (as
he understood and believed it to be a good Watch)
The said Simon Jacobs< no role > saidsays that at the Request of the
said Joseph Saunders< no role > he went to the House of said Joseph Chants< no role > [..]
the Cheequers in Cheequers Alley aforesaid in order to purchase
said Watch where he saw Thomas Painter< no role > , who immediately
asked him for said Wood, and said he had no MoneyThat
Silent him half a CrownThat said Painter asked him if he
had bought said Silver Watch, to which he replied, that he had not
and observed that the Bricklayer had it in [..] his pocket
That Said Painter then said he would got it of the Bricklayer,
which he did, and the Morning following brought it to the said
Saunders and Sold for one Guinea as aforesaid
in this Informants presenceAnd the said Joseph Saunders< no role >
and Simon Jacobs< no role > for themselves further say that on said




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