Middlesex
and
Westminster
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The Information of Elizabeth Rymul
a Widow.
William Bell< no role >
a Servant to the
above Elizabeth and
Thomas Hall< no role >
a
pawn broker in St Martins Lane
Timothy
Parker< no role >
Francis Taylor< no role >
&
Thos Pearce< no role >
taken before Us two of his Majestys
Justices of the Peace
for the said County
City & Liberty
Who being severally upon Oath say and first
this Informant Elizabeth Rymal for herself
saith that she keeps of the Sign of the Green Dragon
in Aldersgate Street
that on Friday Night the
19th. of February last about 12 o'Clock she went to
Bed and saw the House properly fastened up together
with the Cellar Door that the next Morning about
Six o Clock one of this Informants Maid Servants
came & told her that She [..] told her that
the Door were all open that in about half an hour
afterwards this Informt got up [..]
found the Key in the parlour door which she had
hung up in the Barr the Night before being the
place where the said Key was usually left upon
looking further she found a Cupboard door in the
said Parlour open and [..] that there had been stolen
thereout a [..] Tankard plated with Silver a Pair
of Silver Salts a Silver
pepper Box< no role >
a Milk Jug
Six Tea Spoons a pair of Silver Tea Tongs. a
Silver punch Ladle & upon looking further this Informt.
found that two Silver Tea Spoons had been taken & and
away out of a Tea Chest which was in the said
Parlour & one Shirt - this Informant further saith
that the Tankard plated with Silver up of Silver Tea
Tongs Silver Milk Ever 1 pair of Silver Salts
& Six Silver Tea spoons now produced are the
property of this Informant and so stolen from her
as aforesaid And this Informant further saith
that from the Circumstance of the Parlour Key being
taken from the place in the Bar where it usually
hung she verily believes that the said Robbery