Middlesex (to wit)

The voluntary Information and Examination of
Thomas Mann< no role > of Billingsgate London Lighterman
taken and made on Oath before me one of his
Majesty's Justices of the peace in and for the
County of Middlesex the 17th. day of April 1781 .

Who on his Oath saith That on Thursday the 12th. day of
April instant this Informant with John Fenn< no role > William
Woolcot and William Fearn< no role > met together at the Dyers Arms
Public House, in Coal Arbour Thames Street London to
consult together upon the stealing of a Quantity of Bar Iron
out of a Lighter on the Thames adjoining the Steel Yard Thames
Street London. That it was then agreed by this Informant
the said John Fenn< no role > William Woolcot< no role > and William Fearn< no role > ,
that this Informant and the said John Fenn< no role > should go with
a Lug Boat and steal the said Iron out of the Lighter at the
Steel Yard< no role > and convey it from thence up the River to Essex
Stairs, where the said William Woolcot< no role > and William Fearn< no role >
were to bring a Cart to receive the Iron into their Custody and
dispose of it and that the money for the same should be
shared a like between them at the Ship Alehouse in Farthing
Alley Bermondsey Street . That in Pursuance of this Agreement
this Informant and Fenn about half an Hour after two
o' Clock the next [..] Morning went with a Boat and Stole out
of the said Lighter adjoining the Steel Yard , fifty Bars of
Iron, about twenty two hundred weight as this Informant
believes, and carried it in the said Boat to Arundel Stairs
and not to Essex Stairs as was agreed upon. That this
Informant with Fenn waited there till near seven o' Clock
in the Morning expecting their Coming with the Cart to