Philip Dallow Junr< no role > . of the Parish of Whitechapple in the County of Middx Gent maketh
Oath That having lost divers Iron Tools at divers times before the Month of January
last past It happened on or about the Seventeenth day of the same month of January
that one William Bateman< no role > and one Dennis Harwood< no role > were seen in a publick Street
in the same parish by some of this Deponents Servants with an Iron Bar (as this
Deponent was informed by his Servants) who Seized the said Bateman and brought
him to this Deponents house That Euquiry might be made whether the said Iron did
belong to this Deponent and it proving to be the goods of this Deponent The said
Bateman was examined how he came by the same who then pretended that the
other person (Harwood) who made his Escape gave it him the said Bateman to
carry for him or Words to the like Effect. And the said Bateman an being further asked
whether he had been concerned with the said Harwood in conveying away any of
the goods this Deponent had formerly last particularly a half hundred weight To
which the said Bateman Answered to this Effect that he together with the wife of the said
Harwood did carry a half hundred weight to a house in the same parish which
afterwards proved to be the house of one John Hickman< no role > and delivered it to a man
there whom he did not know whereupon this Deponent caused the said Bateman to be
carryed before Robert Jackson< no role > Esqr . then and yet one of his Majties. Justices of the peace
for this County who (as this Deponent was informed and beleives he not being then
present did commit the said Bateman to new Prison to serve him in order to gave
Evidence against the said Harwood when he should be apprehended And this Depont.
further maketh Oath that some short time afterwards the said Mr. Jackson sent for
this Deponent to his house and told this Deponent that he had comitted the said Bateman
to New prison to secure him in Order to give Evidence as aforesaid And did then
prevail with this Deponent to outer into Recognizance to Prosecute as this Depont.
did then apprehend and beleive) the said Hickman whom this Deponent had before
caused to be taken up and carried before the said Mr. Jackson and to be bound over
to appear at the then next Sessions to Answer for Suspicion of receiving the said half
hundred weight And this Deponent did accordingly at the then next Sessions prefer
an Indictment against the said Hickman for the said offece. But this Deponent