Middlesex
To wit
The Information of
John Child< no role >
Taken before me
John Fielding< no role >
Esqr
.
one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
this 15th. day of the 1759
Who being upon Oath says that he very well known one John quest< no role >
Carpenter
late of Bartholomew Close
, one Peter Mason< no role >
late of Shoredicts
one Thomas
Hugher< no role >
Carpenter
one Thomas Hanfield< no role >
Broker
late of the same Place
one Moses Willough< no role >
by at the Sign of the Shuttle
in Brick Lane
Spittalfields
and one Mrs. Smith Plumber the Corner of half Moon Alley
in Bishopgat
Street
, says that a little before Christmas last, he this Informant in
Company with the said John Guest< no role >
, Peter Mason< no role >
and Thomas Hugher
wentley Night to some new Building near Whitfields Tabernacle
in Totten
-ham Court Road
, and Took from thence some Deal [..] half Deals, Battens
and flooring Boards, that they carried them some distance from the Place
says that about three in the Morning this Informt. and John Guest< no role >
went
with a Cart which they hired in Old Street
and carried the said Deals Etc.
away and shott themupdown in Old Street
, says the said Cannan received
half a Guince for his Trouble, says that the said Deals were Sold to the
said Thomas Hanfield< no role >
, and that Blakehalls Cart of Webb Square
carried them to Hanfields Shop in wheelers Street, says he this
Informt. in Company with the said John Guest< no role >
and Peter Mason< no role >
went by Night to a Timber Yard near Grays Inn Lane
and Took
from them a Quantity of flooring Boards and double Deals which
they carried the same Morning to the Turnpike near the Red Lyon
Islington
, says that the next Morning the said Deals were carried
ley a Cart hired in Old Street
to the Shop of the said Thomas Hanfield< no role >
in
Wheelers Street aforesaid, says that the said Thomas Hanfield< no role >
was
present at the loading the said Deals at the said Turnpike that he bought
the same well knowing them to be Stolen, says he this Informt.
the said Guest and Mason Took from off a Stable and Barn near the
Anger Inn Islington
a Quantity of Gutter Lead, [..] which Guest and
this Informt. sold to Mrs. Smith Plumber Corner of half moon Alley
aforesaid, says that he this Informt. the said Guest and Mason Took from
a Timber Yard in Woods Close, a Quantity of [..] Boards Inch and
Quarter thick, & carried the same to an Old Home on Clerkenwell
Green
, says that Moses Willoughby< no role >
of Bricklane
aforesd. saw the sd.
Boards at the said Place, and bought them for about twenty pence a
Board, that the said Guest carried them to Willonghby's House in a
Cart and received the Money for the same, says that he this Informt.
the said Guest and Mason Took another Quantity of the same Board
from the same Yard, and carried them on their backs to a House
where there are two Lyons at the door at the bottom of Old Street
& put them in the Yard belonging to the said House