Middlesex

The Information of William Loften< no role >
Admitted on Evidence for the King against
William Grover< no role > Aaron Jone< no role > and Robert Welsh< no role > taken
before us three
of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace
in and for the said County this 3d. day of
February 1785

Who upon his Oath Saith that he hath been
employed in the Corn Trade by Messr. Brown and Bowell
for near Six Years past That last Saturday as he this Infor
-mant was going with a Cart to the Second troop of Horse Guards
to deliver fifteen Quarter of Oats in going along William Groves< no role >
wanted him to Sell a Sack of Oats but he refused it
When he got to the place where the Oats were to be delivered
And was unloading his Cart a Second Cart came up at the
time and William Groves< no role > assisted them to unload that likewise
In the Cause of which he took two of this Informants empty Sacksof
Oatsand Substituted [..] them in the room of two fullones which were in
Jones's Cart and which were carried up into the Granay instead of the fullones
This Informant and the said William Groves< no role > Aaron Jones< no role > and
Robert Welsh< no role > then sent to Wm. Fellows< no role > Esquire in Apper
Grosvenor Street to deliver five Quarter of Oats, when they got there
this Informant carried five Sacks up into the Granary and
Robert Welsh< no role > carried four and Jones there out of his Cart an
empty Sack to makeofup the Quantity, by which means
they [..] brought away a full Sack of Oats and Substituted
the empty one in its room, which said three Sacks containing
twelve Bushels of Oat they took by Groves's direction to
Newport Market , and William Groves< no role > Aaron Jones< no role > and Robt. Welsh< no role >