Middlesex to Wit

The Information of John Matthews< no role >
Servant to Mr. Bullock of No 81
White Chapple , James Dean< no role > of No 3
Beech Lane White Cross Street Labourer
John Atkins< no role > and Moses Murrant< no role >
of Bow Street Covent Garden Labourer
taken before me this 20th. day of March
1786

Who being upon Oath say and first the said John
Matthews< no role > saith that on Friday Night last about 7 o Clock
a Person now present who calls himself Samuel Clay< no role > was
in a Room belonging to the Royal Cockpit cleaning some
Cock SpursThat this Informant opened a Trunk which
stands in said Room and put in said Trunk about One
Hundred and twenty pounds in Notes and Money and
locked the Trunk at which time said Clay was presentThat
this Informant went down stairs that he left said
Samuel Clay< no role > in said Roomthat he did not return to said
Room until 10 o' Clock the same Nightthat on Examining
his Trunk he found it had ben broke open and the Notes and
Money taken away from which and other Circumstances he doth
suspect that the said Samuel Clay< no role > was concerned in feloniously
stealing the sameThe said James Dean< no role > saith that about
½ past 7 o Clock on said Friday Night he was in said Room
where said Samuel Clay< no role > was Cleaning some Cock Spurs
that said Samuel Clay< no role > staid about ten Minutes and