Middlesex
to Wit
The Information of
Thomas Piety< no role >
,
William Wattey< no role >
,
William Cook< no role >
, and
Sarah Ball< no role >
, and
John Page< no role >
Who being upon Oath say and first the said Thomas Piety for
himself says that on Wednesday last about one o'Clock in the Afternoon he delivered to
John Hall< no role >
Servant to Hannah Baker< no role >
four Chests of Tea and a Bag of
Tea at the East India Company's Warehouses in Parkers Gardens White Chapel
to be carried in the said Hannah Bater's Cart to Mr. Page Grocer in Norton Folgate
and that a part of a
Tea Chest now produced is a part of [..] one of the said Chests, and the said
John Page< no role >
for himself says that he hath never received the said Tea or
Chests nor any part thereof, and the said William Cook< no role >
for himself says
that on the said Wednesday about four o'Clock in the Afternoon he saw the
said John Hall< no role >
driving the said Cart on Cornhill near Birchin Lane
which
was not in the direct way from Parkers Gardens aforesaid to Norton Folgate
that he this Informant saw several Tea Chests and a Bag in the said Cart
at that time and that Thomas Hall< no role >
now present was then in Company
with the above mentioned John Hall< no role >
, and the said William Watley< no role >
for
himself says that on the said Wednesday Evening between 7 & 8 o'Clock
he saw a Cart with 3 Tea Chests & a Bag in it standing in Chambers Street
what
Goodmans fields
that the said Thomas Hall< no role >
was then with the said
Cart & had it in his Care as appeared from his own Conversation, that after
some time the said Thomas Hall< no role >
fetched John Hall< no role >
his Brother who was
Mrs. Baker's Servant and ought to have had the Care of the said Cart, that
the said Thomas Hall< no role >
and John Hall< no role >
then drove the said Cart out of Chambers
Street up Little Alie Street into Whitechapel
and one of them said the Tea
was to be delivered in Little St. Helen's
and this Informant then left them
and the said Sarah Ball< no role >
for herself says that [..] on Thursday Evening
last about 7 o'Clock she saw the said Thomas Hall< no role >
and John Hall< no role >
in Company together in the Back Lane
in the Parish of St. George