Middlesex to Wit

The Information of Elizabeth Bayless< no role > Wife of
Benjamin Bayless< no role > Land Lord of the King's Arms in
Rolls Buildings taken before me this 15th. day
of December 1781

Who being upon Oath says that on Tuesday Evening
the fourth day of December instant, her said Husbands House in Rolls
Buildings was robbed of a Metal Watch, a Silver Watch, two
Mourning Rings, a Silver plated [..] Lid of a Tankardtwo silver
Punch Lodles, and about twenty pounds in Money by some
person or persons, who had privately went up to the one pair
of stairs back Room, where the said Watches Plate and Money
were during the time this Informant was employed by a
person now present who calls herself Jane Moffatt< no role > in dressing
two small Fish for herSays that the said Jane Moffatt< no role >
came into this Informants Kitchen about 7 oClock with two
Fish in her hand and asked this Informant to broil them and
send them over the way, meaning to the House of Mr. Kendry in
Rolls Buildings, opposite this Informants House, to which this
Informants agreed after some few ObjectionsThat the said Jane
Moffatt< no role > left the said Fish with this Informant and said she
would let her know when she would have them doneThat
in about ten Minutes afterwards the said Jane Moffatt< no role > came
again and said she should be glad to have the Fish done then and
asked this Informant what she should require for dressing them
to which she answered that she did not require anything for doing
themThat the said Jane Moffatt< no role > then said there must be