Middlesex
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The Information of Thomas
Spencer< no role > taken before me George
Aird< no role > Esquire , One of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the said
County, this Eleventh Day of
August one Thousand, Seven
Hundred and Eight Seven

Who being duly Sworn, upon his Oath sayeth
that he as a Carpenter by Trade, lives at Hays
M [..] Berkley Square , and is lately come
from Gloucestershire , that Yesterday he was
going along Oxford Shut in the Partick of
Saint Mary le bone about Two oClock in the
Afternoon taken he was accosted by a short
Man, not Yet taken who tolk'd to him about
the Wind & Weather, that they walked up the
said Street together when in a short time
the said Man told this Informants, he saw
something upon the Foot way at a little
Distance and that he believed it to be that
some Lady Shad dropp'd her Garter, that
they went up to it, together, when it appear'd
to be a Purse, which the said Man pick'd
up and put into his Coat Pocket and prop [..]
to this Informant that he Should have a
Share of whatever was in it, and went with
him into a Field not for off to have an
Apportunity of examining it, that when there
they both Sat down upon a Bank, when the
said Mantook outopen'd the Purse and
took out a Paper or Letter, Setting him he could
not read and asked him if he could, when this
Informant replied that he was not very
[..] but would try, which he did and
Discover'd it to be a Bill and Receipt of a
Diamond Ring of the Price of 136 Guineas