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Image 98 of 40215th March 1771


Middlesex
to Wit}


The Information of William Foreman< no role >
and John Collins< no role > Headboro : taken before me One of his
Majestys Justices of the Peace for the said County

Who being upon Oath say And first this
Informant William Foreman< no role > for himself saith
that on the 23d. of February last about One o'Clock
in the Morning he was Picked up in Holborn
by a person now present who calls herself Ann
Baker
< no role > and went home With her to his Lodgings in
Church Lane St. Giles andUndressed himself & went to Bed with her
and stay'd till about Seven o'Clock she Next
Morning and saith that when he went to Bed
he had a Silver Watch Seven Guineas in Gold
& some Silver in his Breeches Pockets he put
his Breeches Under the Bolster When he got up
in the Morning he found his Breeches under the
Bed and his Watch and all his Money taken away
and also the said Ann Baker< no role > gone but does
not Know what time she got out of Bed or left
the Room And further saith that he did not see
the said Ann Baker< no role > till she was Apprehended
last night when she Confessed the taking of the
said Watch and Money and that she pawned the
Watch at a pawnbroker on Saffron Hill And
this Informant John Collins< no role > for himself saith that last
Night he was the Officer of the Night in the Parish of Saint Giles
in the Fields and when the said Ann Baker< no role > was brough
into the Watch House she acknowledged the taking
of the abovementioned Watch and Money and that she
Pawned the Watch at a pawnbrokers on Saffron
Hill in her own Name for One Pound five Shillilngs

Sworn before me the
15th. Day of March 1771 }

Jno. Bamfather< no role >

W Foreman
John Collins< no role >




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