Middlesex
To wit
The Information of
Thomas Mills< no role >
a
Seaman
taken before me this 19th.
day of November 1765
Who being upon Oath says that he knows Robert Tall< no role >
a Waterman
one Stephen whose Sirname he believes to be Nixon< no role >
a Fisherman
by Profession says that he hath been concerned with them, [..] in the
Commission of several Offences, says that last Thursday at about
one o'Clock in the Morning he and the said two Persones Stole
out of an open Boat covered with Till lying betweenbetween
Black Fryers
and London Bridge
a Leather Trunk
which they first carried in a Boat which they found in the Revis to
Copper Alley Stairs where they lended it, that Stephen them took
it upon his Shoulders, and carried it to Mr. Clegg's a private house
in Tooley Street
where this Informant lodges and carried sharp
Stairs into his Room that it remained there two days when
Robert Tull< no role >
broke it open, that it contained Fustain, Table Cloth
Linen,and,Cambletts, and Thickset, that his two Accomplies then
carried away some part of said Goods with the Trunk & disposed
of them but does not know where, says that Tall sold a black
Crat and Waistcoat Stole out of said Trunk at a shop in Rosemary
Lane being the second or third shop or the righthand
Sworn before me the
day and Year first
above writen}
J Holding
Thomas Mills< no role >