Middlesex
and
City & Liberty
of Westmr.
to wit}

The Information of John Shearwood< no role > of Conduit Street in the Parish of
St. George Hanover Square within the Liberty of Westminster , and County of
Middlesex , Hatter, taken upon Oath this 16th Day of December 1771
before me One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County
City and Liberty.

This Informant being upon his Oath declareth and Saith
that on Tuesday last the 10th Instant between the Hours of Two and Three
o'Clock in the Afternoon he returned home on Horseback to his own stable
which he rents and which is a Two Stall Stable situate in Maddox Street
Mewse, and which said Stable is occupied and rented only by himself this
Informant, And this Informant did at his said Stable Door alight and
gett off from his said Horse, and went into his said Stable without his Horse
as his Horse was standing at the said Stable Door while and during a Man
(who is hired by this Informant for the purpose) was washing the Legs of his
said HorseThis Informant says that while the man was so busy in
Washing the Horses Legs there came up to the Man who was so Employed
in washing the Horses Legs A Man whose name is Charles Green< no role > whom
this Informant there saw, And which said Charles Green< no role > addressed himself
and Spoke to the Man who was washing the said Horses Legs, and spoke in
the presence and hearing of this Informant that he the said Charles Green< no role >
knew and remembered the said Horse, Whereupon this Informant asked the
said Charles Green< no role > how he knew the said Horse and when and where (or afforesed
himself in Words to that Effect;) The said Charles Green< no role > made Answer to
this Informant that about a year and a half age he lived Postillion with
the Bishop of Chichester , whose Horses stood in the same Mewse; The said
Charles Green< no role > thereupon remarked to this Informant that he thought this
Informants Horse was much grown since that year and a half, That
this Informant looked cooly upon the said Charles Green< no role > (and rather sternly)
As the Appearance of the said Charles Green< no role > to this Informant was rather
suspicious He this Informant looked Stemly upon the said Charles Green< no role >
who perceiving it, immediately addressed himself to the Man who [..]
was yet washing the Horses Legs, and who is a Cobler by Trade, and said
that he wanted to have a pair of Boots soled and Heal pieced, which when
this Informant had heard, he this Informant departed and left them together
and went home; And this Informant upon his Oath saith that his said
stable Door was broke open about 7 o'Clock at Night on Tuesday last the 10th
Instant and his said Horse together with the Bridle and Saddle was Stole
therein and taken and carried away therefrom by the said Charles Green< no role >
And this Informant saith that the said Cobler who looked after his said
Horse (whose Name is Francis Winnan< no role > ) told this Informant on Tuesday Night
last that the said Charles Green< no role > had told him after this Informant was
gone that he the said Charles Green< no role > had get a pretty Horse just like this
Informants which was then standing at Livery at one Mr Curtis's at the
Golden Horse in Oxford lead near Nibbs's Pound; And that the said Cobler
John Shearwood< no role >