Middlesex to wit

The Information of Thomas Hawley< no role > taken
before me this 16th. day of April 1777

Who being upon Oath says that last Thursday Evening about a
Quarter [..] past 9 o'Clock being in Fleet Market a person now
present who calls himself John Jones< no role > asked this Informant what
o'Clock it was, that this Informant pulled out his Watch and told
the said Jones, that as this Informant was putting his Watch into
his Pocket again another person struck this Informant in the saw
and th said John Jones< no role > Struck this Informant on the side and
the said Jones forcibly snatched the Watch out of this Informant
and made his Escape with it

Sworn before me
April 16 1777 }
J Holding

his
Thos. [mark] Hawley< no role >
Mark