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The Informations of George Clay< no role > of Princes
Street Rotherhithe in the County of Surry Timber
Merchant and Thomas Cock< no role > of Scotland
Yard Westminster Tide Warfinger taken
before me William Addington< no role > Esquire
this 8th: Day of September 1789

Who being Severally upon Oath say, and first the said
George Clay< no role > for himself saith, that about the Sixth
day of July [..] last, he this Informant received a
Quantity of [..] Fir Timber from on Board the Owan,
then lately arrived in the River Thames from the part of
Memell in Prusiathat the said Timber when brought
from said Ship was conveyed to Hanover Hole Rother hithe,
and that on Wednesday Night the Eight day of the same
Month of July, between the Hours of Seven and Eight
he, this Informant, saw the said Timber in Hanover Hole
aforesaidthat the same Night or early on Thursday
Morning, three pieces of the said Timber were cut away
and stolen from one of the Floats;And the said Thomas
Cock< no role > for himself saith, that on Thursday the Ninth Day of
July last about the Hour of Two in the Morning, that he saw
three pieces of Fir Timber afloat in the Dock belonging to
Mr Leonard Phillipps< no role > of Scotland Yard Lighterman, and
Warfinger, that upon looking round, he saw a person now
present, who calls himself Thomas Morgan< no role > , of whom
he asked to whom such Timber belonged, who replied it matter'd
not to whom said Time [..] belonged, that he brought it three and
that [..] some person belonging to the Wharf had agreed
to draw it away that Morning that he asked said
Morgan, if he had brought a Ticket or Note with
said Timber who answered No, that there was no Occasion
as it was to be removed so soon, that said Morgan after taking