Middlesex to Wit

The Voluntary Examination of Joseph Burbidge< no role >
als. Busby< no role > taken before one this 5th.. day
of Janry 1787

Who saith that yesterday himself and a person now
present who calls himself James Smith< no role > , met a Man whose
Name he doth not know, nor where he lives, in
Thames Street that said Smith, said Man, and this Exami-
-nant went together to a House at Halsden Green
near Willsden with intent to steal LeadThat
said Man got over the Pailing of the Garden of said
House, and threw over the Lead now produced, to
said Smith and this Examinant in order to carry
awayThat whilst they were endeavouring so to dowhen
they were apprehended and this Examinant wounded
but the said other Man escaped

Taken and acknowledged the
day and year first above written
Before me}

Sampr Wright< no role >

NB. This Man was so dangerously Wounded that he could
not Possibly sign this Examination.