Richard Jeston Case< no role > of Charing Cross of the Parish of St Martins
in the Fields in the County of Middlesex Linnen Draper maketh
Oath and Saith that on the 12th day of March in the Year of our
Lord 1784 this Deponent detected one Margaret Creed< no role > stealing a
Piece of Cloth out of this Deponent's Shop of the Value of one
Pound seventeen Shillings And that on the same day of the
same Month this Deponent procured the said Mary Creed< no role > to be
taken up for the said offence and to be carried before William
Hyde< no role > Esquire of the Justices of the Peace for the said County
of Middlesex who committed the said Margaret Creed< no role > to Newgate
and bound over this Deponent in a Recognizance in the Sum
of £40 to prosecute the said Margaret Creed< no role > for the said Offence
and this Deponent did accordingly on the twenty seventh day of March
attend at Hicks's Hall and did prefer a Bill of Indictment against
the said Margaret Creed< no role > for the said Offence to the Grand Jury there
which was Found and this Deponent did attend at the Sessions
held at the Old Bailey on the twenty eighth day of March now last
and was informed the said Trial would come on the next day
and he did accordingly attend the next day from Nine O Clock
in the Morning until three O Clock in the Afternoon when this
Deponent found himself much fatigued and wished to get some
refreshment that at that time a Trial of Several Persons was
then depending for Murder which the door keeper told thisDeponent
Deponent would last a long time there being six Witnesses then
to be examined and this Deponent observed there was another
Trial sett down in the Paper fixed up in the Yard of the Court
House before the Trial of the said Margaret Creed< no role > and was informed
by the said Door Keeper he might safely be about an House
Wherefore this Deponent thought the Trial of the said Margaret
Creed< no role > could not come on in less time than one Hour and for
the sake of getting some refreshment went to the London Coffee
House in Ludgate Street but previously informed one
Westray who was also bound to prosecute the said Margaret Creed< no role >
where he was going to and desired the said Westray
to come and fetch him in Case he should be wanted which the
said Westray promised to do And this Deponent further
says that he then went to the London Coffee House aforesaid
and sat there in the Public Coffee room and in less than three
quarters of another after he had been there one Leach
came into the said Coffee Room and told this Deponent
that his Trial was over and that his Recognizance would be