Middlesex to Wit

The Information of Andrew O'Hara< no role > of Green Street
Spital fields Shoemaker , George Gardener< no role > and
James Feltham< no role > taken before me this 13th. day of
December 1781

Who being on Oath say, and first the said Andrew O'Hara
for himself says, that last Night about 12 o'Clock, a person now
present who calls herself Mary Cockson, stopped him at the bottom
of Ship Yard near Temple Bar and asked him to have Connection with
herThat he went up Ship [..] Yard with her, and whilst he
was talking to her, he took his Watch from out of his Fob, and put
it into his Waistcoat pocket, in order to secure it; soon after
which some Words arose between this Informant and the said
Mary Cockson< no role > and he quitted herThat in about three Minutes
afterwards, he missed his Watch and instantly followed her, charging
her with having robbed him of it, when she returned his Watch to
him, saying at the same time " that it was not every Girl who
would give it him back again"That after he had walked
about an hundred Yards from her he missed out of his said Waistcoat
pocket half a Guinea, two shillings, and some half penceSays
that he is very sure that a Half penny now produced, found in
the possession of the said Mary Cockson< no role > , is one of the Half penee of
which he was so robbed as aforesaid And the said George Gardener< no role >
says that after the said Mary Cockson< no role > was taken to St. Clements
Watch House he went there, and on his declaring his intention
of searching her, she took from out of her Month the half Guinea
now produced, as also from out of her pocket the two shillings & the
half pence now producedAnd the said James Feltham< no role > says
that he saw the said Mary Cockson< no role > , take from out of her