new here appear before us the said Justices in this proper
person and an their corpenal Oath an the Holy Evangelist of
God now have administered to them by in the said Justices (we
the said Justices having Competant power and authority to
administer such Oath to them in this behalf they the said
Ingram Horn< no role > and William Goodrick< no role > Depose and say in the
premises on the pre [..] shearing of thesd Abm ayton as follows and first the said Ingram Horn for
himself each that he observe of Eyepse [..] thesd Ingram Henry drury< no role > such such has been & [..] Wm Goodrich< no role > for 3 months last past Sliger have been [..] the Supervisor of the Excise at Brentford
during all yt him hath been &
that the Deponent Abraham Ayton< no role > is a Mallster and Maker
of Malt yer Sale at Brentford [..] that upon the Sixteenth day of December
last hethis Deponent a little After four O Clock in the Morning
he this Deponent in Company with the William Goodrick the Officer of Excise having got into the Defendants Mallhouse
at Brenford abd. aforesaid he Saw a Servant of the Defendant at Abraham
Ayton breading on the Corn in the Coach in the feral house with had been sleeped in order to the making there & in thesd D [..] Nineteen
that he Stand about to Minutes and few plainly law
this Man percing the sd Corn together that he them went away
and returned again about Ten Minutes afterwards when he Saw two Men breading
an the Corn in th same, Coach he continued looking at them
about 20 Minutes longer driving all which time they continued
percing the Corn together that he then saw the said two men
land the Corn so trod an and guage it and them he this
Deponent left the said premises that he returned again
about 11 O Clock to guage the Corn in the said Couch at
which time he found it so hard and compact as it could not
have been unless it had been perced together to prevent the resing & swelling this as aforesaid
that about 11 Of the Clock of the same day he gauged another
Coach of Corn which had been sleeped in order to the Making thereof into Matt
in the second house of the Dependant under the same Roof with
the first house that the Corn in this Couch was to hard
Close and Compact as it could not have been unless it had
been by Some Means or other forced together to present the using & Swelling thereof