Middlesex
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The Examinationand Confessionof Richard Hopkins< no role > Charged with a
Footpad Robbery Committed by him on the person of Silvester Casey< no role > on Saturday
the Eighteenth of August Instant in the parish of Saint George Middlesex
Taken the Twentieth day of August 1787 before me One of his Majestys
Justices of the peace in and for the said County.

This Examinant Saith that he knows nothing of the Charge alledged against
him with respect to the Robbery of Silvester Casey< no role > and that he is an Informant as
the Child unborn, but that as he was going through the Alley which leads from
New Gravel Lane towards Old Gravel Lane on saturday night last he saw the said Silvester Casey< no role > upon
the Ground in said Alley and a Bundle lying by him. That Examinant went
up to said Casey and asked him what was the matter when he Called out
Thieves and Robbers. that said Casey immediately got up and gathered several
things up which lay scallered about him and put them altogher in an Old
Handkerchief which was Toner after which he gave them to a Woman and
then came up to this Examinant and sayed he was sure Examinant must he
One by his Coming so soon to his Assistance, when Examinant told said Casey
he would go [..] with him where he pleased and went with him into a private
house soon after which he was give in Charge to Thomas Cole< no role > a Constable who
Secured him in Shadwell Watch house. And this Examinant further Saith that he is
by Trade a Watmaker and Worked last Week for his Brother John Hopkins< no role > Hatmaker
in the Maize Tooley street Southwark

Taken and Signed
The Day and Year abovementioned
before

John Staples< no role >

Richd Hopkins< no role >