The King
agt.
Richard Pickles}
for Felony

James Clark< no role > of Garlick Hill London Merchant one of the
Prosecutors in this Cause maketh Oath and saith that on the
fourteenth Day of February Instant the said Richard Pickles< no role > was committed to the Goal
of Newgate for the City of London for stealing Sixty Pounds
Weight of Tallow of the Value of Twenty Shillings the Property
of this Deponent and his Partners William Hanson< no role > Henry Hanson< no role >
and James Hanson< no role > and this Deponent saith that the said Richard
Pickles on his Examination before the Magistrate at Guildhall
London confessed that he took the said Tallow out of a Warehouse
belonging to this Deponent and his said Partners in the Parish of
Saint Saviour Southwark in the County of Surrey and this Deponent
Saith that the said Tallow or any part thereof hath not to the
Knowledge or Relief of this Deponent been found in the City of
London or in the County of Middlesex.

Sworn at Justicehall in the Old Bailey
London the Eighteenth day of February
1775 }
By the Court

James Clark