Middlesex (to wit)

The voluntary Information and Examination
of Thomas Mann< no role > of Billings gate London
Lighterman taken and made on Oath before me
one of his Majestys 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 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 out the Steel Yard 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 being
a Cart to receive the Iron into their Custody to 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 Steal Yard fifty
Bars of Iron, of about twenty two hundred Weight as
this Informant beleives, and carried it in the said Boat