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11th January 1786 - 12th December 1787

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Image 14 of 28818th January 1787


Middlesex to wit

The Informations of John French< no role >
Shopinons to Thomas Stock< no role > of Holborn Hill
Linen Draper and Roger Cooper< no role > Shopman to
the said Thomas Stock< no role > taken before me this
18th. day of January 1787 .

Who being on Oath for themselves say that
they having at different times missed Money
belonging to their said Master one of the Shop
That they informed their said Master of it and in
consequence of a direction they received from their
said Master they put a Quantity of Halfpence
which they had marked into a Disk which had long
been used to hold Halfpence That after having
so done he missed the said Halfpence and having
reason to suspect the Person now present who calls
himself John Perkins< no role > to have taken them They
charged him with taking them when the Prisoner
took out of his Pocket eleven Pence halfpenny now
Produced and that eleven Pence of the said Money
is the same Money which they marked and put
into the said Disk as aforesaid and the said
John French< no role > and Roger Cooper< no role > further say
that the Peace of Linen Cloth now produced and
which was found in the Lodgings of said Perkins
is their Masters Property and was feloniously
stolen in his said Shop.

Sworn before me this
18th. day of January 1787}

Addington

J. French
Rager Cooper




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