Middlesex
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The Information of Joseph Clarke< no role > , and Benjamin
Allen< no role > taken upon Oath before me Edward Webster< no role > Esqr . one
of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County this
16th. day of November 1787

First this Informant Joseph Clarke< no role > upon his Oath
saith that on Saturday Morning the 10th. day of November Instant he received
same Money and Notes of the Bank and on the Evening of the same day, about
the hour of Eight he was passing No. 45 Cable Street in the parish of St. George in
the East in the County of Middlesex when Ann Clarke< no role > , and another Women by name Mary Reading< no role >
came out of the house and invited him to go in, which he refused, where upon
the said Ann Clarke< no role > [..] with another person purshed him foreibly
into the house, and into a Room on the Ground flour, when Ann Clarks< no role > took
priebly from of his head a Quantity of Cheese, after which this Informant
Staid voluntarily for sometime in the room and sent for two half pints of
Gin and drank part of them with the said Ann Clarke< no role > , a Woman named
mary Butler< no role > , and a Girl after which he became very sick when a
Woman called Poll Randall< no role > came up to him who said You are very sick
I wod. have You send for some supper and go up stains to bed directly-
he then gave her a Guinea to procure a Supper, and promised to bring him
the Change , which she did to the amount of Nineteen Shillings that before
the Supper arrived the said Poll Randall< no role > , and Mary Butter< no role > forced,
him up into a Room up two pair of Stairs, which he objected to having
a Suspicion that he was in bad hands and when he was in the said
room the said Poll Randall by force took of his heat, Coat, Hand Kerchief
and Shoes under the pretence of and ressing him, and whilst she was
so an dressing him a person not Yet taken brought up a small piece
of beck upon a Plate without bread or beer and then went out of the-
room soon afterwards returned with a third half pint of Gin of
which he drank one Glass, and after drinking the same Poll Randall
came up to him and said My Dear You sean to have deal of Money abt.
You, you had better bet me take care of it for you, has the Girl meaning
Mary Butter had been guilty of a great many petty tricks he answered
he was capable of taking care of the Money himself, that he wanted to go