Middlesex to Wit

The Information of Robert Freare< no role > of Bridges Street
Covent Garden Servant to Peter Paul< no role > of the same
Street Confectioner taken before me this 9th. day
of September 1788

Who being upon Oath saith, that this day between the
hours of one and two o Clock as he was looking thro' the
Shop Window of the said Peter Paul< no role > his Master, he observed a
Person now present who calls himself Lewis Lang< no role > several
times walk backwards and forwards before the Shop of
and Edward Davis< no role > of Bridges Street Covent Garden Boot
and Shoe maker now presentThat he observed said
Lewis Lang< no role > take from off an Hook on the outside of the
Shop Window the two Boots now produced and endeavour to
conceal them under his Coat by doubling them up on which
this Informant followed him and laid hold ofherhis Arm
asking him at she same time what he was going to do with
the Boots on which he seemed surprizedThat he
charged him with having stolen said Boots when said
Lang replied that he this Informant was a Liar and that he had not
stolensthem on whichsaidthis Informant caused
him to secured and the said Boots was taken from him
by John Dore< no role > Apprentice to the said Edward Davis< no role > now
present

Robert Ferear< no role >
Edward Davies< no role >

Sworn before me this
9th. Septemr. 1788}

M Addington

Witness
Edward Davis< no role >