Middlesex to wit

The Informations of Samuel
Johnston< no role > Read of Lower Grosvenor
place< no role > Esquire and William Shipley< no role >
of Piccadilly Pawn broker taken
before me this 15th day of February
1788

Who being upon Oath severally say and first
the said Samuel Johnston< no role > Read for himself says
that the two Great Coats now produced by the said
William Shipley< no role > are his property and as he
verily believes were feloniously stolen in his
House Yesterday Morning And the said William
Shipley< no role > for himself says that Yesterday Morning
about twelve o'Clock the Person now present who
calls himself Richard Many penny came
to his Shop and asked him if he could send to
Mr. Smith in Swallors Street for two Great Coals to
be pawned That Informant told him he could not
send any person for them but if he would bring
them he would take them That in a few Minutes
said Many penny brought the two Great Coats now
produced when this Informant secured him and
the Great Coats also That then Said Many penny
confessed that what he had said about Mr. Smith
was a fiction

Sworn before me the
day and Year aforesaid
N Bond

Saml Read< no role >
William Shipley< no role >