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The Information of Mary Bromley< no role > Servant to Mrs. Ann [..] Dewick the
Wife of Edward [..] Dewick< no role > of Old Gravel Lane St George Middlesex taken
the 6th. day of Feby 1787 Who being on Oath says the sixteen pair of Mens Stocking
produced are the property of her said Master and were safe in the Window of his shop situate as
aforesaid this afternoon. That between the hours of Four and Five The prisoners who
says his name is James Roberts< no role > came into the said Shop and asked her where No.
18 was that she answered that Shop was No. 77 and that he then went away and she
went into the parlour which adjoins the shop which has a Window in the Door
which commands a sight of the ShopSays in a few Minutes after the
said James Roberts< no role > came again into the Shop and took the sixteen pair
of Stockings produced into his hands and run out with the same That
she run after him and cryed Stop thief that he run up the first Turning
on the left hand which is not a Thorough fare that she pursued him
and found him in Custody of John Reynolds< no role > in the said Turning

Mary Bramley< no role >

John Reynold< no role > says he is Apprentice unto William Baily< no role > of Old Gravel Lane
St. George Middlesex Mathematical Instrument maker and on Oath That This afternoon between the hours of
Four and five as he was at Work backward he heard the Cry of Stop thief says he
looked out of a Window and saw the said James Roberts< no role > burning round by his said
masters shop with all the said Stockings produced except one pair which had falled
The he run and seized him when he let all the Remainder fall on the Ground
and saw them picked up that he secured the Prisoner and broughtthemhim to the
House [..] where The first Witness lives and that a Bakers Boy who picked up the
said Stockings all but One pair and brought them along with this Informant to where
they had been taken fromThat he saw them all sorted as they now appear
and put into the Coloured Silk Handkerchief now produced

Taken and Sworn
The day and Year abovementioned
Before us

John Staples< no role >
Peter Greene< no role >

John Reynolds< no role >

Ann Dewick< no role > on her Oath says The sixteen pair of Cotton Stockings of Different Colours
produced Two pair of which she knows to be of her Husband making and his property
And That she verily believes the remaining Fourteen pair are her Husband
property likewise and are of the Value of Three pound

Taken and Sworn
The ninth day of Feby 1787
Before me

John Staples< no role >

Ann Dewick< no role >

The said James Roberts< no role > being asked by me what he has to
say for himself Answered nothing and that he was in Liquor

James Robert< no role >

The Declaration and signing thereof before me
The 9th: of Feby: 1787

John Staples< no role >