Middlesex to wit

The Information of William Hawes< no role > and John
Granger< no role > taken before me this first day of
January 1781.

Who being on Oath say and first the said William Hawes< no role > says
that he is a Labourer to Mr. Thomas Bromley< no role > of the Action in Middlesex
says that on Thursday last was sevenght at night a Peacock a
Peaten and Several Fowels were stolen from a Cart house belonging
to the said Thomas Bromley< no role > at Acton aforesaid and is very sure
that a Peacock now produced in the same which so was stolen
from the said Thomas Bromley< no role > and does very believe that a
Peahen now produced is the same Pea-hen which was so
Stolen as aforesaid And said John Granger< no role > says that
on Saturday last was sevenight a Person now present who
calls himself Thomas Compton< no role > brought the Peacock and
Pea-hen now produced to this Informant Shop on Holborn
Hill and left them with his Girl that when this Informant
came in said Compton asked twelve Shillings for them
that suspecting them to have been Stolen he pretended he had
not Mercy enough to pay for them when said Compton
desired this Informant would call on him with the Money
at the Green Man in Portpool Lane That when he did
call at the said Green Man he found another Person now
present who calls himself Richard Phillimore< no role > in Company
with said Compton and from several Circumstances believes and
Suspect that said Phillimore was concerned with said Compton
in stealing the said Peacock and< no role > Pea-hen

Sworn before me this
first of Jany 1781}
Sampn. Wright< no role >

his
William [mark] Hawes< no role >
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his
John [mark] Granger< no role >
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