Middlx Ss
The Examination of
Augustine Morris< no role >
of
Eastsmithfeild
in the Parish of Aldgate
in the
County of Middlx Labour
taken this 22th. day
of September Anno Dni 1697
Who Saith on Thursday last abt Tenn or Eleven of the
Clock att night He this Examinante and one Jno Dickinson
goeing to ease themselves nigh the Custome house key in Thames
Street
, See there a hole in a Warehouse wch. the Said John Dickinson< no role >
made bigger by pulling out some bricks, which when he had done
he thrust this Examinante into the Said Warehouse who tooke
and handed out from thence five peices of blew Cloath & Severall
peices of white fustian to John Carroll< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
, John Nun< no role >
als Cardmatches< no role >
Richd. Humphrys< no role >
, John Hinton< no role >
als Kitt< no role >
for the Devile and the
said John Dickinson< no role >
who Stood att the said Hole to receive the
Same and afterwards he this Examinant coming out the
abovenamed Jno. Nun< no role >
als Cardmatches Swore he would cutt this
Examinant's Throate if he did not goe back and gett some more
Goods for him, wch. this Examinant did, and handed out from
thence to the said John Nun als Cardmatches and the abovenamed
Crew Severall peices of Cloath And this Examinate further
Saith That abt four of the clock the next morning he this
Examinante with the said Richd. Humphrys< no role >
went again
to the Said Warehouse & deliver'd out from thence to the Said
Humphrys and Jno. Nun als Cardmatches (who follow'd & came
afterwards) Six other peices of Cloath & three Hatts and Left four
Hatts more within the hole of the said Warehouse which this
Examinante afterwards tooke out but the said Cardinatches
pceiveing tripd up his heels and tooke them from him & afterwards
came away and abt five of the Clock of the Same day Sold to one
Johannah Arnold< no role >
two Peices of the Said Cloath for 10s. and four
other peices of the Said Cloath to one Rebecca Jones< no role >
for Twenty
Shillings and is other peices of the Said Cloath to Reptd Euos for
fifty Shillings.
Capt cor me
Robt. Constable< no role >
ye marke of
Augustin [mark] Morris< no role >