Middlesex

The Examination of Elizabeth Jones< no role >
Taken the 27th. day of May 1786

Who being Charged with privately and feloniously Stealing
in the Shop of Richard Bland< no role > pawn broker in Drury Cand
one Cotton Gown Value Sixteen Shillings his Goods
Saith That She is not Guilty of Stealing the same
but that She had the same in her possession at the time
She was Taken and that She Received it of a Man
Whom She met in Drury Lane and who She never saw before who said it was his wife
and asked this Examinant to go and pawn it for him That
She went to pawn the same at Mr. Dobrees a pawn broker
in Holborn for half a Guinea but they refused to lend
more than Nine Shillings upon it Which She refused to
take and was coming out of the Shop when she was
taken into Custody by a Woman a Servant to Mr.
Bland.

Taken [..] the day
and year aforesaid before me.}

D Walker

The Mark of
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Eliz: Jones< no role >