He has been employed under Mr Townshend for three years last past to hang out and take off yarn... And that on Saturday last he this examinant took out of a room at Mr Townshend's where he this examinant did his business a quantity of weaver's draft leads and two pieces of lead pipe and put them into a basket and carried them to Mr Thomas Ward's a glazier and plumber in this city and there telling Mr Ward that his wife had them in exchange for earthenware which she carried about the streets he sold the said lead being two stone and twelve pounds weight for three shillings and four pence. And it is the same leads he took out of Mr Townshend's house.
On Saturday last George Machen came to this informant's house and brought with him a parcel of weaver's draft leads and two pairs of lead pipe which he said his wife had in exchange for earthenware and that this informant paid him three shillings and four pence for the same, there being two stone and twelve pounds weight. And upon this informant enquiring about Machen he heard he wrought at Mr Townshend's who now claims the said draft leads as the property of Mr Joseph Hammont and Son.