Middlesex
and
Westminster }

The Information of Robert Taylor< no role > No. [..]
Denmark Street Saint Giles Cabinet Maker
taken before me one of his Majestys Justices
of the Peace for the said County City and
Liberty.

Who being upon Oath saith that 12'o Clock last
Night he was going up towards Piccadilly when he was Accorted
by the two Women now present who call themselves Rebecca
Davidson< no role > and Sarah Burdoe< no role > who asked him to treat
them with something to Drink which he agreed & went
with them to the Bunch of Grapes in Ruport Street
where they were shewn into a Room up one Pair of Stairs
that Immediately after some Liquor was brought Sarah
Burdoe< no role > forced this Informant down upon a So [..] where
she and the other forcibly held him white-Sarah B [..]
put her hands into his Breeches Fob & took three Guniea
and an half in Gold which he knew to have been thereon
not two Minutes before that he was greatly alarmed
and terrified at their behaviour that Immediately upon
his Money being taken they quitted the Room and look
ran away out of the House as fast as they could that
this Informant pursued them and took them at about
two hundred yards from the House and this Informant further
saith that he is positive & Certain the two person same
present are the two persons who Assaulted and Robbed him
in the manner above describedRobert Taylor< no role >

Sworn before me then
7th. day of September 1786 }
Geo Reid< no role >