Middlesex
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The Information of Ann Manning< no role > and
Michael Simons< no role > taken on Oath before me one
of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the County
of Middlesex the 22d day of December 1783

This Informant Ann Maming on her Oath Saith That [..] her Husband
Richard Manning< no role > keeps a house in Pleasant row in the Hamlet of
Mile End New Town in the said County of Middlesex And Saith
That yesterday morning she went out of her hour about Ten
o'Clock to Greenwich on some Private Business, and left her
said House locked up safe and her property therein And further
Saith that at her return which was about Eight o'Clock in the
Evening she formed both her Back door and foredoors open
and almost all her property that she had in her drawers
together with some Wet things which she had hung up in
her Kitchen was stolen and carried away therefrom And
further Saith That the Two Linnen Streets, One [..] Patch work
Counterpane, One Shirt, Two Shifts, two Aprons, Two
Handkerchiefs, fourteen Clouts, two Womens bed Gowns
One Womans Waistcoate and a large Quantity of Child bed
Linnen and one Flowered Tabine Pin Cushion Stuck with Pins
now produced by Moses Henry< no role > a Peace Officer is the property
of her said Husband Richard Manning< no role > and is part of the
property stolen from his said Dwelling house as above
mentioned.

And this Informant Michael Simons< no role > Saith That between
seven and Eight O'Clock this Morning he was sent for to
come to a house in Bell Lane Spittalfields belonging to
Taylor whose name this Informant doth not know and
accordingly he went there where he found George Muslin< no role > the
prisoner now under Examination who had a Green Bag in
his hand and he opene'd it and offered to sell the same
Bag and what was intoit to this Informant for Thirty
nine Shillings, Accordingly this Informant Offered him
Twenty five Shillings for the same which was agreed on by
both partys, And then the said Muslin asked this
Informant for the money to which this Informant told him he
would fetch it and would not stay long, This Informant
then went out and fetched Moses Henry< no role > a Peace Officer
who came with him and took the Said George Muslin< no role > into
Custody And further Saith that the one Pair of Linnen
Sheets, One [..] Patch work Counterpane, One Shirt, two
shifts, two Aprons, Two Handkerchiefs, fourteen Clouts
two Womans Bed Gowns, One Womans Waistcoate, One