London

To wit the Examination Eward Vaughan< no role >
taken this 19th Day of September 1746
at Guildhall London before me Sr.
John Barnard< no role > Knight and Alderman
London and one of his Majestyes Justices of the
Peace in and for the said City

Who on his Oath Saith that about Six Weeks agoe he came
acquainted with Thomas Bishop< no role > a boy about the Age of Eighteen
Years and John Travalley< no role > another boy aged about thirteen
years who enquired whether this Examinant was out of work
which this Examinant answered in the affirmative that
thereupon they asked him if he would go out with them
a Theiveing which this Examinant was then averse to
but being told by the said two boys there was no danger and
they would secure him from harm. he was prevailed on to goe
along with them and they kept company together about three
days before they went a theiveing when on the third Day
they followed a Cole Cart about two of the Clock into
Red Lyon Street Holborne and there at the be them of the
said Street oposite to the Chappell where the Coles was
delivered Bishop went in and brought our a Silver
Spoon which they runn away with and Bishop broke [..]
and Defaced the reach one part of which he offered to Saith
to a Brusier in the new market at Fleet Ditch who kept it
& the other he told but In what this Examinant knows
not and gave this him two Shillings part thereof in order
to buy Some Cloths and victualls [..] to this Examinant
being under great concern for what he had Done left them
and quitted their Company for the Space of Seven or Eight
Days when by the Information of one Betty Smallman< no role >
who keeps a bawdy house in a Court in Wild street near
Drury Lane the said two Boys found him out where he had
gott into work & thew they threatned to transport him
unless he would go along wiht them So for fear he left the
place he was at work and went along with them to
Somersett house where Travalley Stole from out of the