Middlesex
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The Information of George Bemfleet< no role > , George Smith< no role >
Richard Kirkby< no role > Cristopher John Hoggins< no role > John Oakes< no role > John
Jones< no role > and John Bartholomew< no role > Taken upon Oath before me George Reid< no role > Esqr.
One of His Majesty's Justices of the peace in and for the said County this
Third day of February 1789 .

First this Informant George Bemfleet< no role > upon
his Oath saith that he keeps a Shop in Sairlls Passage in the Parish of Saint
James Westminster in the said County and sleeps there and saith that about
Nine O'Clock on Monday Evening the 26th. of January last he shut up his Shop
and packed up Twenty eight Gold Seals in order to take them home to his
Lodging in Carnaby Street but forgot to take them away and left them on a
Bench in the shop upon getting house he recollected the having left those
seals and returned to his Shop to fetch them on coming to the door he saw two-
Men coming out of the Shop upon which he was alarmed and asked them
what they did there when they Immediately ran away and were pursued
by this Informant up Saville Row calling out stop Thief one of the said
Men who Proves to be Stephen Reynolds< no role > was taken and brought back to
this Informants Shop when the Twenty one Gold Seals three cases of
Mathematical Instruments and several other things now produced were
found upon him and are the property of this Informant: And this
Informant further Saith when he left the shop about Nine OClock he
not only shut the door thereof but Double locked it and when he came to
examine the Lock he found it had been forced open by some Instrument or
other And this Informant further saith that he well remembers
a person now present who calls himself John Harding< no role > did a few days
before the Robbery come into this Informant's shop under Pretence of
wanting to purchase a Gold seal but did not purchase any they were all
too high Prized and he would call again And this Informant also
particularly remembers that on the night of the robbery and a very short
time before this Informant left his Shop the person now present who
calls himself Joseph Pocock< no role > came into his Shop and purchased a Sheet
of Cartridge Paper for which he paid Three Farthings And this
Informant Does now believe that the coming of the said two Men to his
Shop as aforesaid was only with a design to examine into its situation

George Bunfleet< no role >

Secondly George Smith< no role > upon his Oath saith that he
is an apprentice of George Bemfleet< no role > and was with his Master when he
left his shop on Monday night last and saw his Master shut up the same-
and double Lock the door And this Informant further saith that about
nine oClock of the said night he was shutting up the door when the person
now present who calls himself Joseph Pocock< no role > went into the Shop and asked his
Master for a Sheet of Cartridge paper and was served with the same by his
said Master

George Smith< no role >