Middlesex
to Wit
The Information of Robert Lewis< no role >
of Little Chelsea
in the said County Esquire
Edward Lees< no role >
Servant
to the Revd. Mr. Filewood of Mickleham in
Surry and James Alders< no role >
of Berwick Street
Soho Pawnbroker
taken before in this 28th.
day of December 1781
Who being upon Oath says and first the said
Robert Lewis< no role >
says on the 21st. of November he was in Company
with Elizabeth Filewood< no role >
in a Post Chaise on the Fulham Road
when the said Chaise was stopped by two Flootpads who robbed
the said Elizabeth Filewood< no role >
of a Metal Watch now produced half a
Guinea and a CrownSays that he doth verily believe that a
person now present, who calls himself Jonathan Wycherlow< no role >
tois
beone of the Footpads that robbed herAnd the said Edward
Lees< no role >
says that he drove the said Chaise in which his Mistress
rode at the time she was robbed and doth also verily believe
the said Jonathan Wycherlow< no role >
to be one of the Foot pads that
robbed her as aforesaidAnd the said James Alders< no role >
says that on Saturday last one Thomas Price< no role >
(whom he hath
frequently seen in Company with the said Jonathan Wycherlow)
[..] came to this Informants Shop and offered to pawn
the said Metal. Watch for two Guineas, and on this Informant
observing to him that it was advertized, the said Price said
"that he would speak tofetchJonathan (meaning as this Informant
understood the said Jonathan Wycherlow< no role >
) that he this Informant
then went out and observed the said Wycherley on the opposite
side of the way, who immediately on Prices going out of this