Westminster to Wit

The Information of Alice Lloyd< no role > of No. 23 Clements
Lane Clare Market Spinster , Thomas Saunders< no role > of
Chymister Alley Bedfordbury Shoemaker and Sarah
Warne< no role > of Drury Land Pawnbroker taken before me
this 17th. day of May 1781

Who being on Oath say, and first the said Alice Lloyd< no role > says
that a person now present who calls herself Ruth Bellamy< no role > , occasionally
came to this Informants Lodgings in Saint Martins Lane, for Victuals,
which she gave herThat last Shore Tuesday the said Ruth Bellamy< no role >
came as usual, but this Informant not being well, she laid
down on the Bed, at which time a light coloured Cotton Gown, a dark
coloured Cotton Gown a yellow Gown, a Marcella Petticoats, an Apron
a Black Cloak and several other things were in the RoomThat in
about half an hour afterwards, she awoke, and found that the said
Ruth Bellamy< no role > was gone away, and the above Articles stolenSays
that she is very sure the light coloured Cotton Gown now produced
[..] is one of the said Gowns that was stolen from her,
by the said Ruth Bellamy< no role > , as aforesaidThe said Thomas Saunders< no role >
says, that in the Evening of last Shrove Tuesday, the said Ruth Bellamy< no role >
came to his Stall in Drury Lane and shewed to this Informant
three Gowns a Petticoat & an Apron, and had upon her back a Black
Cloak; and further says that the said light coloured Cotton Gown now produced is
one of the Gowns which she shewed to himAnd the said Sarah
Warne< no role > says that the said Ruth Bellamy< no role > pawned with her the said
light coloured Gown for half a [..] Guinea and had with her at the
same time in her Apron two other Gowns

Sworn before me this
17th. day of May 1781}

Tho: Gilbert< no role >

her
Alice [mark] Lloyd< no role >
Mark

Thomas Saunders< no role >
Sarah Warne< no role >