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 15th. day of Ianury 1700.

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

And ye deponent saith further yt ye bag aforesd. was about as big as a 40li bag of money, & yt by feeling ye 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 ye Exaiant saith further yt afterwards asking ye said Iohn Crosley, for $\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$ 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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