London ss.

The joint and several Informations of Matthew Kealy< no role >
Warehouseman to Tudor Griffith< no role > , Williams Stores< no role >
Fry and Nathan Robinson< no role > of Bow Church Yard London
Tea Dealers and partners, and Griffith Richards< no role > another
Servant to the said Griffith, Fry< no role > and Robinson, who
being on Oath Severally say as follows and first this
Informant Matthew Kealy for himself saith that
between seven and Eight O'Clock this Morning he this
Informant was told by John Smith< no role > a Boy living in the
Neighbourhood that [..] some person had gone away with
some of their Goods [..] and informing him which way they
were gone he this Informant immediately [..] pursued
and in a Passage between Cheapside and Honey Lane
Market overtook Joseph Bent< no role > the Prisoner now under
Examination carrying a Chest Boh [..] Tea, and immediately
asked him where he was carrying said Chest of Tea, the
said Prisoner Bent up, Med he did not know, on which
he pulled the Chest off his Back, and the other Informant
Richards coming up at this time seized the said Joseph
Bent and carried him and the Tea back to then Master's
House, says he knows the Tea to be the Property of his
said Masters, having the night [..] before it was so taken
marked it, says he believes the said Tea to be of the
Value of twenty pounds and towards-And this
Informant Griffith Richards< no role > for himself that on
hearing of the Tea being taken as above mentioned
he followed his Fellow Servant into the said Passage
and seized the said Joseph Bent< no role > and led him the [..] leading to his
Masters House as is above said

Taken and Sworn at Guild Hall
London 8th. day of May 1782 before me}

Richard Clark< no role >

Mathew Healy< no role >
Griffith Richards< no role >