Middlesex
and
Westminster }
to wit

The Information and Confession of Bevill Bird< no role > taken
before Me Benjamin Cox< no role > Esqr . One of his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for the said County of Middlesex and City and
Liberty of Westminster this 20th. Day of December 1753

This Informant [..] voluntarily confesseth and saith That in
the Evening of Friday the 14th. December instant he this Informant in Company
with One Thomas Cook< no role > lifted up the Sash of the Shop Window belonging to
Goddard Williams< no role > Linnen draper in the Strand where upon he the said Thomas
Cook< no role > took out of the said Shop Window a large Parcell of Silk and Cotton and
Silk [..] Handkerchiefs to the Number of between Eight and Ten Dozen as
he this Informant [..] verity beleives but is not certain to the exact Number
And this Informant further voluntarily saith That some time after Christmas
last past he this Informant in Company with One Charles Cotton< no role > and One John
Clarke< no role > (which said John Clarke< no role > is as this Informant verily beleives is now under
Sentence of Transportation in Newgate ) [..] at two different times stole from off
the Bulk belonging to a Linnendraper's Shop near the End of Charles Court in the
Strand One Peice of Flannell containing about 14 Yards and One Peice of
red Bayes containing about 16 Yards [..] And this Informant further saith not

Taken the Day and Year
abovesaid Before Me}
Benjamin Cox< no role >

Revill Bird< no role >