London ss:

The Exaiacon & Confession of Richard Annetts< no role >
and Shadrach Hands< no role > taken be fore me Sr. George
Merttins< no role > Knt . & the 30th. of September 1723

These Exainats Say That about Ten of the Clock last Night
they these [..] did feloniously take Twenty
Sheep from the Flock out of a Fould belewbe thatthe
Rubbing House near Epson Downes in the County of
Surry andthree whereof they left behind upon the
Downes, And these Exaiaults further Say That they
brought the remaining Seventeen Sheep to Smithfeild
Markett where they this Morning intended to have
Sold them and exposed them for that purpose And
further Say that they do not knew the Owner of the
Said Sheep but possitively declare that they Stole
the Same in the manner as before mensened

Capt 30o. Die Septembr is 1723.
Coram me.
Geo Merttins

The mark of
Richd [mark] Annetts
Shadrach [mark] Hands
his mark