Middlesex to Wit

The Information of Edmund hash< no role > Esquire of
No.21 Bell Yard Temple Bar and John
Atkins< no role > of Prenies Street Holborn Labourer
taken before me this 5th. day of Febry 1788

Who being upon Oath say, and first the said Edmund
Nash< no role > Esquire Saith that last Night between the hours of
eleven and twelve o'Clock as he was endeavouring to
enter the Opera House in the Hay market (at which
time he had in his Pocket a Metal Watch a cornelian
Seal set in Gold a gold hook and a gold key) a
person now present who calls himself William
Richardson< no role > forced himself violently against him
and immediately after ran from himThat this
Informant missing his said Watch, pursued said
Richardson down the Haymarket and caused him
to be taken into CustodyAnd further Saith that he [..]
[..] doth verily believe that the said Richardson is the Person who
stole his said WatchAnd the said John Atkins< no role >
for himself saith that he apprehendedwiththe
said Richardson with the Assistance of others last
Nightatnear the Opera House in the Haymarket
by the direction of the said Edmund Nash< no role > Esqr: and
secured him in Covent Garden Watch House

Sworn before me this
5th. day of Febry 1788}
Sampr Wright< no role >

Edmd. Nash< no role >
John Atkins< no role >