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The Information of Edward Pitcher< no role >
Servant to Mrs. Mary Hoffman< no role > Widow a Tallow
Chandler in the Old Jewry , against Thomas Hilliard< no role >
who is charged before me with having wilfully
set Fire to his Dwelling House No. 6 Bird in
hand Court in the said City Who on his Oath
saith, that about a fortnight ago the said Thomas
Hilliard brought a Tub with kitchen Stuffinet
to the said Mary Hoffman< no role > 's Shop that after the
Stuff had been weighed by this Informant's fellow
Servant , he emptied the same out of the Tub,
which Tub appeared to have been an Oyster Barrel,
that he this Informant did not take any particular
Notice of the said Tub, so as to be able to knew the
same againthatAnd this Informant further saith
that the said Thomas Hilliard< no role > declared the said Kitchen
FiveStuffwas not his own, and desired the [..] Tub might
beleftset by untill he called for it and which was so
done, andthe saidmet Tub was delivered to the said
Thomas Hilliard< no role > the same Evening by him this
Informant, And this Informant further saith
that [..] having viewed the bottom of a Tub or
Barel now produced, he believed it may be
about the size of the Tub in which the said Thomas
Hilliard brought the Kitchen Stuff to the sd.
Mrs. Hoffman's House as aforesaid.

Taken and sworn at Guildhall
London the 22d Day of March
1779 before me one of his Majorty 's
Justice of the Peace in and for the
said City}
Edwd. Pitcher< no role >

Tho. Sainsbury< no role >