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Public Office Portland Street

The Information of Christopher Tenent at the Corner
of Taylers Court Linnen Draper Daniel Hinds< no role >
Mrs. Great Saint Andrews seven Dials TaylorGeorge Taylors John Briggs< no role > when
Linnen man to Mrs Tenent before me George Reid< no role > Esquire One of His Majestys
Justices of the Peace for the said County Petz and
Liberty this 24th. Day of Novr. 1788

Who being duly Sworn upon this Oath say and find this
Informant Christopher Tenent for himself saith he keeps a
Linnen Drapers Shop as above that at abouts half pasd Seven
this Evening he is certain the Glasses of his Shop Windows were
all whole that the three Silk Handkerchiefs now produced
were laying near to one of the Windows for sale and that they
archis property

And this Informant John Briggs< no role > past himself
saith he his Journeyman to Mr. Christopher Tenant< no role > that
about half past Seven this Evening he was in his Master Shop
when he heard sombody pass at the window, upon which he
went out when the other Informant Daniel Hinds< no role > told
him some persons had been breaking into the Shop and
showed him where the Glass of the Shop Window had been
broken and a considerable part of the Silk Handkerchiefs
now produced this Informants saw had been drased
thorought the hole made in the Glass of the Shop Window
and told him the three persons who had broken the
Glass and taken the Handkerchiefs were gone upon
adjoining Court upon which he with the other Informants
went in pursuit a little way up the said Court when try
not Two of the said persons one of whom who is now
present