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Image 410 of 44323rd May 1786


Middlesex
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[..] The Information of Samuel Davies< no role >
Sarah Benner< no role > and Margaret Jones< no role > taken on
Oath the 23d. day of May 1786 before me one of
his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the County
of Middlesex

This Informant Samuel Davis< no role > on his Oath Smith That he
rents Part of a shop and Premisses of Joseph Walker< no role > of Old
Street road in the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch Middlesex And that
on the night of Nineteenth day of May Instant or early
the next Morning his Appartments was Broke open and
Stolen and carried away there from a quantity of Shoes and
Cather, his working Tools and sundry other things his
Property and that several Pair of Shoes some Cather
and some working Tools now produced by John
Armstrong
< no role > a Race officer are his property and the same
that was told out of his Appartments aforesaid

Sarah Benner< no role > on her Oath Saith That her Husband rents a house in
three Cap Alley in the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch
and that about a fortnight ago Susannah Hamphrys< no role > the
Prisoner now under Examination came to this Informant
and told her she had heard that this Informant had got
a roon to lett and asked Informant if she would let it
to her, And accordingly Informant let the room to her
at One Shilling per Week and the said Samuel
Hemphrys
< no role > took Possession of it the same Evening and
that James Gunch< no role > now under Examination lived there
Constantly with her

Margaret Jones< no role > on her Oath Saith that on Saturday
Morning the Twentyeth day of May Instant a Woman
came to her Husbands house who is a Shoemaker in Webb square
in the Parish of Saint Matthew Bothnal Green [..] and offered
to sell her some old leather [..] Shoes but the same not
suiting her purpose she refused to buy them and
further Saith that she believes that Susannah
Humphrys
< no role > the Prisoner now under Examination
is the Person who brought the Shoes to sell to




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