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Image 470 of 7742nd August 1787


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The Informations of Thomas Seabrook< no role > of
Mill Hill in the County of Middlesex Laborer
Sarah Leaper< no role > Daughter of Mary Leaper< no role > of same
Place Widow Sarah Seabrook< no role > Daughter to said
Thomas Seabrook< no role > Henry Taylor< no role > of Barnet
Gate Labourer Richard Lovell< no role > of same place
Shoemaker Martha Seabrook< no role > Daughter in
Law to said Thomas Seabrook< no role > and George
Wood
< no role > of Henden Constable taken before me
this 2nd. day of August 1787 .

Who being upon Oath severally Say and frist the said Thomas
Seabrook
< no role > for himself says that he keeps a Cottage at Hendon
That between Gand 10 o'Clock Yesterday Morning he looked the door
of his said House with a Padlock and fastened the Shutter of the
Window below and went to his Work at Mr. Benfields That in about
an Hour after he was informed by a Boy that his House was broke
open when he went home and missed Several Articles And the Said
Sarah Leaper< no role > for herself says that about ten o'Clock Yesterday
Morning She was passing near the House of Seabrook a about
the distance of ten Yards She observed the Prisoner John Vandebus< no role >
alias John Bond< no role > now present Come out of Seabrooks Yard with
his blue Apron tuck'd up in his Hand and a bundle of something
in it apparently wrapped in a green Skirt the end of which he [..]
ever his Apron at which time the Person now present who call
themselves James Everard< no role > and Offspring Gregory< no role > Stood at a
little distance and upon Vandebus alias Bond's going away
said Gregory joined him That a little before said Vandebus
alias Bonds came out of said Seabrooks House She observed the
person now present who calls himself Peter Bolton< no role > come out of
Mr. Bingham's Shop whose She hath Since been informed he bought
Gimpasder That after this Everard and Bolton went away towards
Mill Hill which Road Vandebus alias Bond and Gregory had Previously
taken And the said Sarah Seabrook< no role > for herself Says that being
informed by Sarah Leaper< no role > of the Robbery She went in pursuit of
the Robbers and at Hywod Hill she saw the said Vandebus alias
Bond, Everard, Bolton, and Gregory together that not being abld
to pursue them herself She informed three Men of them and
returned And this Informant further Says that the three Gowns
the Apron the Handkerchief and Green Skirf now produced by
said Richard Lovell< no role > are the property of her said Father Thomas
Seabrook
< no role > and were in his House Yesterday Morning at nine
o'Clock And the said Henry Taylor< no role > for himself Says that,
Yesterday




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