Middlesex to wit

The Informations of John Newman< no role >
Articled Servant to Richard George< no role >
of Holywell Street Mercer Samuel
Mecking< no role > of No.2 Elm Street Grays
Inn Lane Stocking maker and John
Jones< no role > Shopman to the said Richard
George< no role > taken before me this 28th.
day of October 1788

Who being upon Oath severally Say and First
the said John Norman< no role > for himself says that
this Evening between six and seven o'Clock as he
was putting up the Shutters of his Masters Shop
in Holywell Street a Person in a dark loose
great Coat came to him and asked him the way
to London Bridge when he directed him and upon
this Informants turning round towards the Shop
Door which was instantly he saw a Person now
Present who calls himself Michael Donaty
came past him and as he thought out of the Shop
with Stuffs wrapped in a Paper but what they
were he cannot say and suspecting that said
Michael Donaty had been in his Mastors Shop
and stolen the contents wrapped in the Paper he
went in and discovered five or six Pieces of
Figured Stuffs and Cambletts had been taken out
of his Masters Shop Window during the time he had
left it which was not above a minute That he
then