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8th December 1753 - 24th October 1757

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Image 17 of 15928th January 1754


This Informant on his Oath further saith, that about three Weeks ago John
Joyner was employ'd by Mr. Gustavens Ovey< no role > to carry a boat Load of Goods to
a Ship which lay at Iron Gate that in his Passage he took this Informant
and Danish Cutts on Board when the said Joyner broke open a Trunk which
was on Board the Boat and took out ten parcels and then fastned the said
Trunk again which Parcels contain'd Stockings, that this Informant and
the said Cutts get on Shore with the Stockings and went to the Duke of Cumberlands
head and met one John Shirley< no role > there who lives in or near Barnaby Street
who treated with them for the said Stockings but did not make an absolute
agreement then that the next day this informant the said Joyner & Cutts
met the said Shirley again at the said House when he bought them and paid
this Informant Four Pounds and upwards which was equally divided between
them except what was Spent, that this Informant told the said Shirley in
what manner the said Stockings were Stolen

This Informant on his Oath further saith that about three Months ago he was employd
by Thomas Cheney< no role > a Waterman to carry several Parcels of Goods on Board a Ship which
lay at the Red House that he took one Edward Currey< no role > on Board in the Passage, that a
Limehouse holl the said Curry broke open a Trunk that was in the Boat and took
out seven or eight Parcels and fastned up the Trunk again that the said parcels Containd
Metal Buttons for Mens Cloathes and a parcel of Silk that the said Currey told this
Informant that he would carry the said Parcels to the said Abraham Robins< no role >
House, that the next day this Informant and said Currey went together to
the said Robins at his House in the Minories when the said Robins went with
them to a House in Duke Place when the said Robins fetch'd two Persons
whose Names this Informant does not know, which said two Persons bought the
said Parcels of the said Robins whom the said Currey and this Informant
had untrusted to sell the Goods for them that one of the said Persons
paid this Informant Six Guineas and the other Person paid Curry a Moydore
being the Money that Robins said he had agreed with the said two Persons
to pay for the said Goods which money this Informant and said Currey
divided equally between them

Taken and Sworn at the [..] iansion House London this
Day and Year first within written before, Me one of his
Majesty Justices of the Peace for the said City & Liberties}

John Ford< no role >

Tho Rawlinson< no role > Mayor




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