Middlesex
To wit
The Information of
Elizabeth Smith< no role >
taken before
me this 21st. day of May 1770
Who being on oath says she has lived with Mr Greeves two months
says she went to bed at eight o Clock last Night because,theyshe
waswereto get up at 12 to Wash, says Mrs.. Dagg the Washer [..]
came about one, and she let her in, that she never washed there [..]
before, says Mr Thompson lodges in the Back Garrett, Mrs Sutherland
lodges in the two Pair of Stairs, forward, and Mr Gray in the back
room one Pair od Stairs, that her master and Mistress lye [..] in the
Parlour, says that her Mistress went to bed about the same time
she did, but she left Mr Thompson & Mr Gray & her Master
at Supper in the Kitchen when she went to be says that Mrs.
Dagg, her Mistress, & herself were in the Kitchen when they heard
Mrs Pyke, cry fire, says she run to the fore door and asked Mrs
Pyke were it was, that Mrs Pyke said backwards, that she
went to the backdoor and saw the Flames coming out of a Hay-
loft behind their house, says she is very sure there was neither
fire or light Yesterday in the Shop or Parlour which she was up,
says there was neither fire or light yesterday in the fore garrett
[..] while she was up, that it is kept for Cloaths & all was lockt,
that the back room two Pair of Stairs had neither fire nor light
Yesterday while she was up; that that also is kept for Cloaths, says about
a fortnight age she brought two penny worth of Matches from her
mothers at Wapping
, says that a morn makes them at Wapping
, says
that her Cousin Mr Slater at Westminster
buys the same sort
of Matches, says she at Mrs Dagg the Washerwoman in at one
o Clock
Sworn before me
May 21st. 1770}
[..]
Elizabeth Smith< no role >