Middlesex to Wit

The Information of Peter May< no role > of No 114
in Brook Street Ratcliffe Interpreter taken
before me this Second day of November
One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty
Four.

Who being on his Oath says, that he hath lodged in the house
of Jane Mowett at No 114. upwards of Twenty Months,
which Jane Mowett is Mother to Edward Payne< no role > now
present That on Saturday fortnight the Sixteenth of October
last, this Informant Wife came here in the Evening, and
after setting himself down addressed herself to said Mr. Mowett
and either said "Is there one Payne a Waterman that plys
as either of the Stairs" or do you know one Payne a Water
an that plys at either of the Stairs. but which Expression
she made use of Informant cannot recollect-when said
Mrs. Mowett replied Lord Mr. May why do you ask me
such a Question, then clappid a handkerchief to her Face,
sum do much affected, and added " If you know-any
"Thing let me know it, for you know that there is none Plys at
"the Stairs by that Name but my Nid/for if h has been
"Guilty of any Thing to bring came on me let [..]
"hanged " when Informants Wife told her, that she had
heard that one Payne had been concerned in the Rolbery of
the Dollars. That the next Morning said Mrs. Mowett
went out and returned in the Evening, when Informant
asked her, if she had heard any Thing about her Son. to which She