Middlesex
to wit}

The voluntary Evidence of Samuel
Bowyer< no role > taken before us Two of
his Majestys Justices of the peace
in and for the said County

Who being upon Oath saith that he
is Coachman to Joah Bates< no role > Esqr . one of
the Commissioners of his Majestys
Victualling Office Tower Hill that about
Six Weeks age he was going to fetch his Master
home in his Carriage [..] about Ten
o Clock in the Evening when a Person
now present who calls himself [..]
William Cox< no role > together with one Robert Gordon< no role >
applied to this Informt. to carry Three Bags
or Bundles of Iron hoops to a House in
Pettycoat Lane Whitechapel which
was put into the Carriage by the said
Cox and Gordon and they followed him
to Pettycoat Lane where the said Hoops
were sold and they gave this Informt.
four Shillings and Six pence as his Share
for the sale of the same And this infomt.
further saith that the Hoops abovesd.
were the property of the King and
was feloniously taken and carried
away from the Stores of the Victualling
Office by the said Two Persons William
Cox< no role > and Robert Gordon< no role > And further
that [..] the sd Cox and Gordon had often
applied to him for the Key of his Masters
Stables for the purpose of putting the