Old Bailey< no role >
{
The King< no role >
agst.
Wm. Wheakey< no role >
and
John Briggs< no role >
for Felony
Mary Taylor< no role >
of Clothworkers Almshouse Frog Lane
in the parish of Saint Mary Islington< no role >
in the County of
Middlesex
Widow Maketh Oath and Saith that on or about the
Second day of August last this Deponent was bound over by a
Recognizance in the penal Sum of Forty pounds before Sir John
Fielding< no role >
Knight one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for the
said County of Middlesex
Upon Condition that she this
Deponent should prefer a Bill of Indictment at Hicks Hall in
Saint John Street
in the said County and prosecute and give
Evidence thereon at the last Session of Gaol Delivery of Newgate
against the said William Wheatley< no role >
and John Briggs< no role >
for Feloniously
Assaulting this Deponent on the Kings Highway putting her in
par and Feloniously taking from her person and Apron her
property And this Deponent Saith that on or about the Twentieth
day of the same Month of August she was taken very Ill of
a Fever and being a very poor Woman and having nobody to look
after her she removed to one Mr. White's House near Kingsland
Road
where she continued very ill as aforesaid till on or about the
Tenth day of September following when she was Obliged to be again
removed to her own House and there Continued Ill and kept her Bed
Three Days And this Deponent Saith that she was so ill during all
the time aforesaid that she could not possibly Attend to prefer a
Bill of Indictment and prosecute the said William Wheatley< no role >
and John
Briggs< no role >
without greatly endangering her Life And this Deponent Saith
that she is very Poor and inform that she Subsists upon Charites
and is now in the Seventieth Year of her Age And that the has been
informed that the said William Wheatley< no role >
and John Briggs< no role >
were
Discharged for want of Prosecution and that her Recognizance will
be Estreated unless prevented by this Honourable Court And Lastly this
Deponent Saith that she did not Neglect to Attend and Prosecute through
any favour or Affection to the said William Wheatley< no role >
and John Briggs< no role >
or either of them or for any Reward or the hope or promise thereof.
Sworn at Justice Hall in the Old
Bailey
the day of October 1773}
[mark]
The Mark of
Mary Taylor< no role >