London

The Information of John Ford< no role > of East Smithfield in the County
of Middx Waterman taken the 28th. day of Janry. 1754

This Informant on his Oath saith that Walter Nicholls< no role > and this
Informant on the 20th: of this Instant about two o'Clock in the Morning went
to Bear Key and stole a Trunk which stood thereon which they put in a
Boat and carried to Mill Stairs at Rotherfith, then Walter Nicholls< no role > fetch'd
John Joyner< no role > to them that they opened the said Trunk in the Boat and
put the Contents in three Sactes and Fling the Trunk Overboard which
Contents were Parcels of Stationary Wares (s follows) several Reams
of Paper, a Set of Books for Merchant's Compting House, Four Hundred of Quills
several Pounds of Sealing Was and Wafers, two Pen knives a paper Case
two Bottles of Red Ink, two Quire of blank Bills of Lading and several other
Stationary Wares two of which Sacks the said Nicholls and Joyner carried
to the Shore and put them into Joyners Mothers House who lives in a place
called the Folly, the third Sack this Informant carried to the Ship and
blue Ball in five foot lane, then this Informant on the Wednesday following
went to the House of Abraham Robins< no role > in the Minories whom he was Inform'd
by the Edward Currey< no role > that he would buy any Stolen Goods and told the said
Robins that he get some Stationary Goods which he and some others had
taken off the Heys when the said Robins told this Informant that he would
enquire and get some body to buy them that the next Day the said Robins
came with two other Persons to the Duke of Cumberland's head in the Folly
and met this Informant who went with the other two Persons to [..]
House hard by where the Goods were remov'd to and Robins stayed behind
that they opened at the several parcels of the said Goods when the said Two Persons
bought several of the Goods of this Informant for which they paid him
twelve Shillings that the said Joyner and Nicholls came to this Informant
in the Evening of the same day when this Informant divided the Money equally
between them excepting what they had Spent that they set Fire to the
remainder of the Goods with Intent to destroy them to prevent discovery