Middlesex to Wit

The Information of Josephus Chant< no role > of Checquer
Alley Whitecross Street in the County of
Middlesex victualler taken before me this 25th.
day of September 1786

Whohavebeing upon Oath saith that he knows three persons
who call themselves James Wood< no role > , James Cowderley< no role > , and a Buckle maker
whose Name he doth not at present knowThat on Friday
Night last at about ten o'Clock the said three Persons
came to his House and offered him the Watch now produced
to SaleThat he bought said Watch of them and gave
two Pound for it to said WoodThat said Wood andCowleyCowderley
told this Informant that they had robbed a person just
before near the New Riser Islington of said Watch and
a GuineaThat they had divided the Guinea between them
and that he Wood immediately after the Robbery was
obliged to jump into the said River in order to escape
from being taken and that the Buckle maker was not
concerned with them in the said RobberyThat yesterday Evening
he took the said Watch to a [..] Houseofin Old Street and Sold
Said Watch to Robert East< no role > now present for One Pound five
shillingsand the two persons now present who calls themselves
James Wood< no role > and James Cowley< no role > are the two persons mentioned by him
as aforesaid

Sworn before me this
25th. day of Septmr. 1786}

Sampn Wright< no role >

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Josephus [mark] Chant< no role >
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