Middlesex to wit

The Information of Rice Fowkes< no role > Servant
to Messrs. Jones Mayrick & Co. of Holborn
Hill Haberdashers taken before me this first
day of April 1778 .

Who being upon Oath says that in the Month of December last
he was sent by the said Messrs. Jones Mayrick & Co's. Shopman with
a parcel of Haberdashers Goods to [..] Richard's Coffee house
in Fleet Street in Consequence of an Order now produced signed
J Williams which Order had been received at the said Jones
Meyrick & Co's Shop that he this Informant was directed
to bring back the Money for the said Goods, that at Richards:
Coffee house he found a person now present who calls himself
John Williams< no role > who ordered this informant to open the parcel
& see whether the Articles were right, that when the Parcel
was opened the saidRichardsWilliams said there was one Article [..]
that the saidRichardsWilliams ordered this Informant to go back &
fetch the Article he mentioned, that this Informant accordingly
went back to his Masters Shop leaving the said Parcel
of Goods on the Table in the Coffee room, that when he
returned to the Coffee house the said John Williams< no role > was gone
and the parcel also, and this Informant does verily
believe that the said John Williams< no role > feloniously took and
carried away the said Parcel of Goods

Rice Foulkes< no role >

Sworn before me this
1st day of April 1778}

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