The Information of Michael Abbott< no role > of the parish of Saint
Giles Criplegate in the County of Middx & Cordwainer Taken this Eighth
day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven
hundred and thirty three Before Sr. Wm Billers< no role > Knt . Lord Mayor
of he City of London

This Informant upon Oath Saith That he is Company of and Ralph
Holebrook Nick< no role > Named Post Boy Did in or about Southwark Fair last
past Meet a Marin Thames Street London at about the hour of one in
the Morning very much disquised in Legnor which man told this Informant and
the said Ralph Holebrooke< no role > that he lived in White Chappell and was by
business a Ballast men And this Informant further saith that he and the said
Hole brook prevailed with the sd. Ballastman to go with them in to Stepney fields
where he this Informant & his said Accomplice foreibly took from the said
Ballastman a Great Coat, a White Hastcoat his Shoes and Buckles a Cotton & Silk
hankerchief and Worsted Cap, and the sd. Holebrook otherwise Past Boy Cut the
Ballastman with a Knife a Cross the back of both his hands. And the Informt.
[..] In Company with one Caleb Charlesworth< no role > the very next Morning Did
Burglariously Bread and Enter the Dwelling house of an Alehouse man in
Ratcliffe highway and feloneously take & bear away thence thru pewter
quart potts, three peweter pint potts, one half pint pewter Pott, one quarter
and one half quarter pint pewter pint potts, One Holland Shirt & one Shift and two or
three remnants of Cloth like Table Clothes. And this Informant in Company
with one John Bulney< no role > and Thomas Brown< no role > Did about twelve Months ago
meet a woman in the Borrough of Southwark very much Intoxecald wth Liquor
in the night time and did persuade her to go with them to the Bowling Green
where she fell a sleep and this Informant did then to the from out of he Ears
two Gold Ear Rings, a White Apron a half hankerchief And an old
Sarcenet Hood from out of her pocket and further this Informant
Saith not

Sworn ye 8th day of February
in ye Year of Our Lord 1733
Before Me

Wm Billers< no role > Mayr .

Michael Abbott< no role >