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Image 169 of 69520th April 1772


Middlesex To wit

The Information of Jacob Zesile< no role > and William
Beswick
< no role > taken before me this 22nd day of April
1772

Who being upon Oath say and frist the said Jacob Zesile for himself
says that on Saturday night last he was at the Globe in the Strand
opposite the Savoy Gate about 12 o Clock, that there was also in said
house four Soldiers who sat in the same Box with think Informant Says
that three Persons now present who calls themselves Nathaniel Cain< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
George Jefferies< no role > and William Beswick< no role > were three of the said Four
Persons Says that during the time he sat there a Silver Watch
now produced was feloniously Stole out of this Informants Pocket.
that as soon as this Informant missed his Watch he said totwo Persons
werethe said George Jefferies< no role > & Nathaniel Cain< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. "I have lost my Watch
to which they made no answer but Immediately went away that
this Informant together with some Watchman pursued them to the
Savoy : where they secured the said Nathaniel Cain< no role > but the said George
Jefferies
< no role > Escaped, into the Guard RoomAnd the said William
Beswick
< no role > for himself says that on Saturday night last about
12 o Clock this Informant and the said George Jefferies< no role > went
to the Globe in the Strand opposite the Savoy Gate that the there
Saw a Person now Present who calls himself Nathaniel Cain< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
in Company with a Soldier whose name this does not know, that
the said George Jefferies< no role > and this Informant sat down by them,
that the said Jacob Zesile was drinking by himself in said Box
also, that about five minutes after this Informant sat down the said
Nathaniel Cain< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. delivered to this Informant a Silver Watch
now produced, which Watch this Informant Immediately gave
to the said George Jefferies< no role > and told the said George Jefferies< no role >




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