Westminster to Wit

The Information of William Hall< no role > of
George Court Cross Street Carnaby Market
Labourer Henry Crocker< no role > of No 4
Tottenham Court Road Broker William
Triplett< no role > of Oxford Market Butcher
and Thomas Hardcastle< no role > of Dyot
Street Labourer taken before me this
3d- day of May 1786

Who being upon Oath say and first the said William Hall< no role > saith
that on Saturday the 29th day of April last between the Hours of two
and three o'Clock in the Afternoon as he was bringing the Basket
of Linen now produced on his Head from Peter Calverts< no role > Esquire
in Duke Street Manchester Square thro' Hanover Square he was
accosted by a Person now present who calls himself Charles Johnson< no role >
who stood at the Second Door from the Bar in Hanover-Square
and appeared to this Informant to be a Servant ; that said Johnson
requested this Informant to get him a Coach for doing which he
would give him Six Pence, which he gave him, and told this
Informant that he would take care of his Basket and Linen in
the mean timethat this Informant left the Basket of Linen
in said Johnsons care together with his Knott, and went to Bond Street
and got a Coach, and on his return found Johnson gone and the
Basket of Linen and his Knott alsothe said Henry Cracker< no role >
saith that between 2 and 3 o Clock in the Afternoon of said Saturday
the 29th. day of April last he saw a person now present who calls himself [..] John Jones< no role > with the
Basket of Linen on his head in the Highway between Tottenham
Court road and Battle Bridge , that Johnson was close
behind him and another person now present who calls himself Henry Lee< no role > -alias Levi< no role > opposite them next the Nailsthat this