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The Information of Anna Ball< no role > , William Ashdon< no role >
& Elizabeth Margatson< no role > taken before me this 15th.
Day of June 1786

And first Anna Ball for Herself says that Her Husband
keeps a House in Tothill Street , that in a one pair of Stavis
Back Room She keeps her Wearing Apparel that on Friday
last She saw a Flower'd Dark Cotton Gown in the said
Room that She then Locked the Door of the said Room
that there is another Door into the said Room on the Landing
Place which this Informt. had some little time before fastened
with Nails that on Thursday last this Informant going into
the said Room missed the aforesaid Dark Cotton Gown &
other Cloaths le taken out of a Chest in the said Room that
on looking about this Informant saw the said Door which
She had nailed up was broken open that this Informant verily
believes the Persons now Present who call themselves Joseph< no role >
and Ann Denham< no role > broke open the said Room and Stole
the said property and this Informant further says that a
Swiss Chintz Gown a Black Silk & Cloak with a broad Lace
a pairs of Lace Robbins a small piece of Lace and a Striped
Muslin Apron now produced are her property and was
Stolen from the said Room that the said Joseph Denham< no role >
lodged in a Ready furnished Back Room i [..] two pair of Stairs
in this Informants House ever since the first day of
May last

Anna balls< no role >

And William Ashton< no role > for himself says that He is
a Constable of the Parish of St Margarets Westmr : that
on Tuesday last the went with a Search Warrant to the
Apartments of Joseph Denham< no role > that there saw the said
Joseph Denham< no role > and Ann< no role > his Wife that upon telling
them He came to Search their Room for Stolen pro=
=perty of Mrs: Balls that the said Ann Denham< no role > answer
=ed She had nothing belonging to Her that the said
Joseph Denham< no role > told his said Wife if She had any
thing to deliver it up that upon Searching the Bed