Middlesex to Wit

The Information of Valentine Walker< no role > of Islington in the
said County Watch case maker and John Heather< no role > of
Long Acre Pawn Maker taken before me this 11th.
day of September 1786

Who being upon Oath say, and first the said Valentine
Walker< no role > for himself saith that a Quantity of gold turnings now produced
of the value of twelve shillings and upwards he doth verily
believe to be his property and to have been stolen form
him lately at different timesAnd the said John Heather< no role > for
himself says that this Morning a person now present who calls
himself Patrick Mc. Mahon< no role > came to his Shop with said
Gold, and offered it to Sale, saying [..] that it belonged to a
young Man a Watch can maker and that he had given him eight penny worth
of by sters for it and afterwards contradicted it from which
he suspected said Mc. Maker to have Stolen it and caused
him to be secured

Sworn before me this
11th. day of Septr. 1786}

Sampr Wright< no role >

Val Walker< no role >
John Beck Heather< no role >