Middlesex
to Wit
The Information of
John Young< no role >
,
Mary Whittle< no role >
and
Thomas
Cleave< no role >
taken before me this 2nd.. day of June 1781.
Who being upon Oath say, and first said John Young< no role >
says,
that on Thursday Night last a person now present who calls himself James
Watts< no role >
, came to this Informants Masten house to Eye, and he shewed
him into a Room called the Rose, where he believe he went to Bed.
The said Mary Whittle< no role >
says, that she is a Servant in the said House under
the Piazza, kept by Barny Thornton< no role >
That in the morning when the
said James Watts< no role >
came down, he paid for his Bed and she let him out,
and on examining the Room called the Rose, where he lay, she missed
a pair of Sheets, a pair of pillow Cases, a Counterpane and a Towel
and a Counterpane out of another RoomSays that the Counterpane
which he took out of the Rose, he laid on the bed of the other Room from
whence he took a Counterpane only; and further says that the pair of
Sheets and Counterpane now produced by the said Thomas Cleave< no role >
, are
the same, which were stolen as aforesaid. And the said Thomas Cleave< no role >
says that on [..] Friday last the said James Watts< no role >
pawned with
him the said Sheets and Counterpane for seventeen shillings
John Young< no role >
Marey Whittle< no role >
Thos. Cleeve< no role >
Sworn before me this
2nd. day of June 1781}
M Addington