Middlesex
Surry City and
Liberty of Westminster }
To Wit

The Informations of Mary Giffard< no role > of Hanover Square in the Parish of Saint
George Hanover Square in the Liberty of Westminster Spinster
Taken before me John Spinnage< no role > Esquire One of his Majestys
Justices of the Peace for the said County's City and Liberty
Who being upon her OathThatSaith, That she has lived and
Resided as Relation and as a Companion to Lady Sambrook in Hanover Squares
aforesaid for the space of five Years last Past or thereabouts
Saith That Lady Sambrook< no role > who is near Ninety Year's of Age
is now and has been or some time past in a very inform state of mind
and her memory much impaired from her great Age, Saith,
That on friday last in consequence of a Conversation which pass'd
at Lady Sambrook's house between Lady Sambrook and the Informant
relatives to a striped Sattin Gown, one Margaret Watt's formerly
Margaret Pearl who has lived as Waiting Woman with Lady Sambrook for
upwards of Two Year's past was Called upon to Produce the said
Sattin Gown she having theCustody& are of Lady Sambrook's Wearing
Apparelly Saith That the Answer given by the said Margaret
Watt's when so called upon to produce the said Sattin Grown, was
that her Ladyship had no such Gown, or used Word's to that or
the like purport and Effect, Saith That some suspicion of the
said Margaret Watt's honesty then arising in the Informants mind
she determind of Possible to detect her; Saith That the next day
she called the said Margaret Watt's into the Presence of Lady
Sambrook and charged her in order to know what was become
of the aforesaid Striped Sattin Gown and also a brown Silk
Damask Gown the property of Lady Sambrook, when the said
Margaret Watt's confess's to that she had been very bad in deed
but that Lady Sambrook's things shou'd be returned, or used
Word's to that or the like Effect, Saith, That from had pass'd
on the friday and Saturday she this Informant did the next day
being Sunday mates an Examination into Lady Sambrook's
Wearing Apparell when she found that there missing [..] Twelve
Gowns of different sorts, To Wit-One Striped Sattin Gown
aforesaid, one Brown Damask Gown, One Black Born bazeen
Gown, One Grey and Gold Silk Gown, 2 Black Silk Gown's, One
White Dimity Gown, One Black Sattin Gown One Striped Lutestring
Gown, One Sprigg'd Lutestring Gown, One Blue Tissue Silk
Gown and one Grey Tabby Silk Gown together with other things
All which Twelve Gowns and other things she verily believes
and is very well satisfied is the property of Lady Sambrook aforesaid
and word in the Care of Margaret Watts< no role > aforesaid and were privately