Middlesex
to Wit
Elizt Catteral< no role >
Maketh Oath & saith that or Monday the 2d
Octor Instant,
thatshe went from her House between Ten &
Eleven o'Clock & returned about the Hour of five in the
afternoon, when she was told by her Daughter a Child of about
12 Years of Age, that Mr. Perceval had been searching tha House
for Shirts & a Pair of Sheets that had been lost
[..]
Thomas
Maser< no role >
living at he Shop in Duck lane
, that she went intor
her own to dying Room, & then missed a Pair of Dowlas Sheets Two
Guineas in Money & a Liner Gowne And she further saith
that when she left her House in the Money the Two Guineas
was on the Mantle Price in a blue & while saucer, & that
the Window say has were down, & she looked the Door & hung
the Key over the Mantle Piece in her Shop before she went out and that
mary Clerk a Lodg win the House told her that she had unlooked the Door
during the Time Persival was in the Room
Sworn before me
3d Octo 1787
The Mark of
[mark]
Eliz: Cottesell< no role >
Edwd Parker< no role >
Mary Clerk< no role >
on her Oath saith that when she un looked [..]
Door of the Room she saw Mr. Persival near the [..]
S [..] re place, & clap his Hand upon the Shelf & she saw
him take a Guinea of the Shelf, & then 15th looked the Door &
hung the Key [..] on the Nail from which she had
taken it but did not tell the Child, that she saw Percival
take the Guinea
Sworn before me
3d Octor 1787
Edwr Parker< no role >
The mark of
Mary [mark] Clerk< no role >
Mrs. Cotterell on & a mination first said that Two Guineas & two Shillings
were in the Saucer
And it must be observed that Mr. Cotterel said her Child told her
She saw-Percival take a Guinea from the Saucer & it does not
appear by the Affidavit of Mary Clerk that the Child was in the soon
Mrs. Cotterel said the Streets were taken out of a Closet
the gown our of a box in the san Arm
that she said the Guinea on the mentle Peice on Sunday &
saw in then or Tuesday Morng