Informeth upon oath that Robert Hall abovesaid came to this informer upon the fourth day of this instant April and told him this informer that his name was Robert Taylor and that he was at table at the house of one Travis, at the edge of Theale Moor, and desired to have yarn of him to weave a piece of bolstering, whereupon this informer (hearing the house of the said Travis to be of honest report) did deliver to the aforesaid Robert Hall betwixt nine and ten pounds of white yarn... but this informer being afterwards told that this Hall was a crafty fellow and not having brought again his work according to promise this informer enquiring after him heard that his name was Hall and not Taylor, neither was he a tabled at the house of the aforesaid Travis.
Informeth upon oath and saith that one Robert Hall of the Hollinwood within the parish of Oldham came to this informer the fourth day of this instant April and desired to have some linen yarn to work into bolstering, whereupon this informer delivered to him the said Robert Hall about nine pounds and three quarters of yarn, to the value of nineteen or twenty shillings being rather thereunto induced in regard the said Robert Hall told him he lived at the house of one Travis at the side of Theale Moor which Travis he conceived to be a man of honest conversation.