London to wit

The Examination of Jacob Udney< no role > .
apprehended and brought before me Paul Le Mesurier< no role > Esquire
one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said City by
Samuel Harper< no role > and John Armstrong< no role > , and charg'd as a
Rogue and Vagabond, having upon him the said Jacob Udney< no role >
some Picklock Keys, some Matches and a Flint and Steel
with an Intent feloniously to break and enter into a Dwelling
House; Warehouse, Coach House, Stable or Outhouse; Who
being upon Oath, saith, that he believes he is thirty two
Years of AgeSays, that at the Age of fourteen Years, or
thereabouts he was bound Apprentice to William Jones< no role > , deceased
who was then a Weaver in Virginia Row . Bethnal Green , and
served the said William Jones< no role > the Term of seven Year, being
the Expiration of his Apprenticeship , and continued as a
Journeyman with his said Master about six or seven
Months after, when he married

And this Examinant further saith
that he worked as a Journeyman with Mr Meyrick a
Ribbon Weaver in Goldsmith Street Messr Mess and
Gammage in Church Street , Mr Payne in Church Street
Messrs. Bennett and Parker in Friday Street and Mr Hewitt in
Stewart Street, Weavers , about five or six Years, when
Employment being slack, he worked in the Distillery Line
about two Years

And this Examinant further saith that
the Private Stills being put down he got Employment for nine or ten months as
a Waiter at the Queen of Bohemia's Head in Wych Street
Drury Lane and when he quitted that Service he went to the
Adam and Eve in Tottenham Court Road where he remained
six or seven Months, when a Relation of his Wife's dying
left him some Money, which enabled him to set up a
Loom of his own, which he has continued to work to the
Time of his Apprehension.

And.