Middlesex to wit
&
Westminster to wit

The Information of Mary Bignell< no role >
taken beforeUs twoof his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the said
County City & Liberty

Who being upon Oath saith that on the Twenty
second day of September last she was Committed to [..]
Clerkenwell Bridewell
New Prison by the Justices at the public Office in Worship
Street Moorefields charged On Suspicion ofFeloniously
[..] a Petty Larceny was Conveyed in a Coach
with two Men Committed from the same Office
to Newgate for some other Offence who were Chained together
but who were entirely Unknown to this Informant
and that end Isaac Lumley< no role > a Servant to the
Keeper of New prison was in the same Coach
with them to Convey them to Goal they all being
in his Care or Custody that Immediatly after they
were in the Coach one of the two Men who were
chained together who sat next to this Informant
and whose Name she hath since learnt is Delaforce
demanded this Informant Money and upon her
telling him she had nonethathe swore bitterly that
she had and that he would have it and Immediately
began to Beat her Violently and knocked her down
twice in the Coach that in Struggling the said
Delaforce that his hands into this Informants pocket
and took out a Gardiners crooked Clasped knife which
she had therein Opened it out her Gown in several places
and at length cut both her pockets off on one of which
there was one Shilling in Silver Two pence in half
pence and four Iron Keys and in the other three pence
in half pence all which he took away and this Informt
further saith that the said Delaforce did at the same
time take from her person a New Black Silk Hatt
a Cap Ribband and Linen Handkerchief this Informt.
further saith that when they came to Newgate in their
way to Clerkenwell Bridewell upon her Complaining of
the Injury which had been done to her one Robert