Middlesex
to wit}

The Information of Richard price< no role > Mary Brooks< no role >
and Charles Dorman< no role > against Samuel Chapman< no role >
on Suspicion of Felon taken on Oath before
me John Staples< no role > Esquire one of this Majesty's
Justice of the peace in and for the said
County the 21st. day of August 1787 .

Richard Price< no role > of White Chaple High Street in the said
County Cheesemonger being upon his Oath saith that the
person now present who Says his Name is Samuel Chapman< no role >
has been his Shopman about [..] one Year and three Quarter
of a Year That he has lately Suspected him of Robbing his
Till of divers Sums of Money That in Order to discover
Whether his Suspicious were well founded he this
Informant did Yesterday markherEight Shillings and four
Sixpence and sent the same by one Thomas Brooks< no role >
With directions to send his Wife with the said
Money to the Shop of hi [..] this Informant to purchase
Goods with the same That about half an hour after three o'Clock
yesterday afternoon he put [..] four Shillings and
two Six pences into his Till in the Shop and went out, That about
five o'Clock he this Informant returned and asked the said
Samuel Chapman< no role > what he had sold who Answered
that he had Sold a Ham to a Woman For Seven
Shillings and Seven pence one piece of Cheese
for two Shillings and three half pence and one other piece
of [..] Chesse, to another person for one Shilling
That this Informant then Counted the Money in
his Till and found only thirteen Shillings
when there should have been Sixteen Shillings
that this Informant then sent for an Officer and
hadhimthe said Samuel Chapman< no role > Searched that he then Confessed in the presence
of this Informant and the Office that he had taken
the three Shillings and had them with more of his
Money in the Dust Tub Lastly saith that the
three Shillings now produced by Charles Dorman< no role >
are three of the Shillings he so Marked and
sent to the said Mary Brooks< no role > for the purposes
aforesaid

Rich: Price< no role >

Sworn the 21th August
1787 before me}
John Staples< no role >