John Sutcliffe: The Examination of John Sutcliffe in Woods Close in Middlesex 15 January 1700

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The Examinacon of Iohn Sutliff {sic} {Hogs} keeper in Woods Close in Middx take this 15^th. day of Ianu^ry 1700.

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This Exaiant saith y^t ab^t 3. or 4. years agoe Ioⁿ. Crosley an Hostler in y^e George Inn in Southwark, told him this Examinant y^t there lay a bag ofLumbers in y^e manger and desired him to take it, & Carry it to an old house in Woods close in Clerkenwell parish, ab^t 6. or 8. doors from this Exaiants house & he should have $\frac{1}{2}$ of it, and y^e Exaiant took it out of y^e manger, & carried it home, & from home to y^e s^d old hose, and threw it down into the Cellar and there left it, and after wards returning to the Cellar found it gone.

And y^e deponent saith further y^t y^e bag afores^d. was about as big as a 40^li bag of money, & y^t by feeling y^e bagg he ꝑceived there were lumps in it, some round like money, & some long like boxes, and the Exaiant suspected, they were either silver or some such sort of stuff, And y^e Exaiant saith further y^t afterwards asking y^e said Iohn Crosley, for $\frac{1}{2}$ of what was in the said bag, the said Crosley answered that he had los{illeg}|t| it in a garden.

Iohn Sutcliffe

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