to break Open houses with then they all went
together up to half Moon Sheet Piccadilly when they
came there Welch & Thompson told this Informt
that they were going to break Open the Bookseller
Shop at the Corner but desired this Informant
to Wait at about a hundred Yards Distance
this Informant waited kill about four o' Clock
this Morning but they did not return to him
Upon which this Informant went to the Sign
of the Green Manwhereabout 8 o' Clock this
Morning where he found Wm. Thompson at
Breakfast who told him that they had broke
Open the Booksellers Shop & Stole a Number of
Books out of it desired this Informant to see
if he could find Peter Welch< no role >

Severally Sworn before me
the 9th. Day of July 1772 }

Jno. Barnfather< no role >

Robert Christie< no role >
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