Middlesex
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The Information of Benjamin Pince< no role > of the
Parish of Ealing in the County of Middlesex one
of the Gardeners of her Royal Highness the
Princess Amelia at Gunnersbury House in
the said Parish of Ealing taken upon Oath
this 22d. Day of October 1786 before one Samuel
Wegg< no role > Esquire one of his Majsety's Justices of
the Peace in & for the said County of Middlesex

Who upon his Oath saith that yesterday Morning the
twenty first Day of October instant about eight o'Clock
he percived that a Quantity of Lead was stolen taken &
carried away from the Plinths of two Pillars of a
Gothic Temple on the pleasure Ground within the
Paddock of her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia
at Gunnersbury in the said Parish of Ealing that
upon examining the Ground & Wall order the said
Temple he saw that some person had got over the
said Wall about six or seven Yards from the said
Temple, [..] & that the Lead, after being taken
away from the said Plinths of the said Pillars,
had been thrown our there into a Lane Called
Love Lane, that by the Fall of the Lead several
Pieces of a white crustaceous matter, formed upon
the Lead by paint & other Substances with which
the Lead had been, at different Times, covered, was
broken off it & lay scatter'd upon the Grownd, that
he traced different Pieces of the said while matter
all along a footway to the Town of Acton in the
said County, up to the House of Benjamin Smith< no role >
a Carpenter , in the Stain, in the said Town of Acton