Middlesex to Wit

The Information of Lawrence Barrow< no role > of Great Swan Alley
Coleman Street in the City of London Dealer and Chapman
and Henry Barnet< no role > of three Ten Court Broker Row
Moor fields Black Lead Pencil make taken before
me this 13th. day of March 1786

Who being upon Oath say, and first the said Lawrence
Barrow says that on Sunday Morning the 5th. day of March instant he
met two persons now present who call themselves Thomas Bray< no role > and
Edward Mc Glue< no role > about ten o Clock next Petticoat Lane
Whitechapel That said Thomas Bray< no role > asked him if he would
buy may [..] black Lead and Shewed [..] him a Sample of
the SamethatInformant replied that he was no Judge of it's
value but that he would shew it to a person who [..]
knewofits quality [..] and that he would call
at the said Brays house in about an hour and give
him an Answer whether he would purchase it or not
that in a few Minutes afterwards he applied to the said Henry
Barnet< no role > to know the Value of said Lead, who informed him,
that he could not tell, without a layer Samplethat
he immediately went to said Thomas Brays House in [..] a
Court in Holborn for a larger Sample, when said Bray asked
him, whether said Barnet could be trusted, or notand
that if he could, to being him with himThat immediately
afterwards he brought said Barnet to said Brays House
that said Bray after some Conversation with said Barnet and