Middlesex to wit

The Information of Mary Hollingsworth< no role > and
Samuel Laundy< no role > and Robert Kerr< no role > taken on Oath
the 1st. day of March 1784 before me one of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex

This Informant Mary Hollingsworth< no role > Saith That on Saturday night last
the Twenty Eighty day of February, Drummond Clarke the Prisoner now
under Examination came to the shop of her Husband Ralph Hollingsworth< no role >
a Butcher in Smock Alley in the Parish of Christ Church and bought
meat of this Informant and having agreed for some, This Informant thought
she felt some persons hand in her Pocket (but having been robbed at different
times before) she took no Notice of it then having some Shillings marked
and one Marked Guinea, This Informant then went to the other part of
the Shop suspecting that her Pocket had been picked and formd that
the marked money she had in her Pocket was taken away, the Prisoner
being still in the Shop, and suspecting that the Prisoner had done it
she sent for the above mentioned Robert Kerr< no role > who is a near neighbour
to come to Assist her, when Mr. Kerr came no Notice of the matter
was immediately taken but this Informant asked the Prisoner if she
wanted any thing else to which she replied no, Prisoner then asked
Informant what the meat came to that she had bought, Informant told
her it was one shilling and Eleven pence, the Prisoner put her hand
into her Pocket and paid Informant Two Shillings in order to have the
change which two shillings was the same marked as was taken
out of this informants pocket as before set forth, Accordingly this
Informant told the said Mr. Kerr that she had been, Robbed and that
the two shillings now produced was part of the Money the property of
her husband.

This Informant Samuel Laundy saith that on Saturday last Mrs.
Hollingsworth< no role > came to this Informants house in Smock Alley aforesaid
who is a Surgeons Instrument maker, and Informant him that she had
her Pocket Picked of seven or Eight Guineas, and that within three
or four Months she had last above One hundred Pounds which she
believed to have been Picked out of her Pocket , telling him that she
could not suspect no person but a Woman who used to deal with her
on which this Informant advised her to have some of her money marked,
Accordingly Informant marked Twenty one shillings and one Guinea
himself in his own name Laundy and advised her when the person came
whom she suspected put the marked money into her Pocket and further saith
that on the same Evening between Eight and Nine o'Clock he was sent
for to come to Mr. Hollingsworths Shop and when he came there he
saw the Prisoner Drummond Clarke now under Examination
and Robert Kerr< no role > in the Kitchen, and then Mr. Kerr searched the
Prisoners Pocket and took thereout the marked Guinea and
Nineteen Marked shillings and other silver.