Middlesex

The several Informations of Richard
Hale< no role > Edward Hanson< no role > John Beamish< no role > and
George Meacham< no role > Taken the 12th. day of June
1787 .

Who upon their Oaths Severally say and first the
said Richard Hale< no role > for himself Saith That he is a
Master Baker and Keeps a Shop in Upper Thames
Street in the City of London That a Silver Watch
his property was hanging up in the Bakehouse about
Eleven o'Clock in the day of Saturday last about
which time one George Herb< no role > whom he had occasionally
Employed Came into the Bake house and soon afterwards
went away That about One o'Clock the same day
he Came home and was informed by his Wife That
the Watch was Stolen And having had Suspicion
That the Watch was Stolen And having had Suspicion
That the Watch was Stolen by the said George Skel< no role >
he went out with an Intention to Call at some
pawnbrokers and having heard That Steel lived in
Saint Giles's he went to Drury Lane and accidentally
went into a pawnbrokers Shop there kept by one
Samuel Wording< no role > and there saw the said Watch
which the pawnbroker said he had Received
in Pledge for £1..1..6 And this Informant saith
That the Watch now produced is his Property and
the same that was Stolen as aforesaid

And this Informant Edward Hanson< no role > for
himself Saith That he is Shopman to Mr.
Wooding of Drury Lane pawnbroker That about
3 or 4 o'Clock [..] in the afternoon of Saturday last
the above named George Heel< no role > together with one