Middlesex to wit

The Information of John Priestley< no role > , Thomas Wright< no role >
Ann Good< no role > John and John Beamish< no role > taken before
me this 28th. day of March 1783 .

Who on their Oath say and first the said John Priestley< no role > says, that
his House in Thames Street London was burglariously broke
open on Tuesday night the 18th. Instant, and two pound weight
of Mace a Box with a pair of Money-seales and weights,
a Silver gravy Spoon, a Silver Wine strainer, a silver Bottle
Lable, and three Salt Spoons, were feloniously stolen therein
That a Box with Money Seales now produced he is very
sure are his property and are the same which were so
stolen; and does verily believe that a Quantity of Mace now
produced is the same Mace which was stolen from him
as aforesaid That a small [..] Crow, a Chizzleanda large
Gimblet and a Dark Lanthorn now produced, were found in
this Informant's house and left there by the Robber or Robbers
And further says that a person now present who calls himself
William Rutley< no role > Pratt, had, at this time been Discharged from
this Informants Service about a Month. And the said
Thomas Wright< no role > says that about 8 o'Clock on the following
morning the said William Rutley Pratt< no role > , brought the Mace
now produced to this Informant's Shop in Oxford Road , who
requested to have it weighed and said he had Bought it
that morning of a Man in Dean Street . And the said
Ann Goodjohn< no role > says that the said William Rutley Pratt has
lodged in her Hence about a fortnight That on Tuesday night
the 18th. Instant the said Pratt was absent from his Lodging
the whole Night that about a ¼ of an hour past 5 o'Clock
the next Morning, the said Pratt came home, when this Informant
asked him whether he had been in Bed that night, who replied