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1789

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Middlesex
to wit}

The Informations of Thomas Knightley< no role > of East Smithfield Pawn broker
Jonathan Baker< no role > at Mr. Windows in the Minories London Pawn broker
Susannah Wife of Vincent Berry< no role > of Nigtengale Lane Marriner and Martha
Edwards
< no role > of No. 2 Rosemary Lane Spinster Severally Taken upon Oath before
me Robert Smith< no role > Esquire this fourth day of July 1789 and first the said Thomas
Knightley
< no role > says about Six o Clock of Saturday the 20th day of June last Prisoner
present (who says her name is Mary Chapel< no role > ) came to the Shop of Samuel
Knightley Situate in East Smithfield aforesaid and asked to look at an Apron
but that being busey they had not time to look one out immediatly she accordingly
went away without [..] one that in the course of same afternoon he saw
the petty coat produced Hang at the door of the said Shop that about Eleven
oClock on the Monday following he mised [..] said Pettycoat that on the
Saturday following he saw the Pettycoat Hang at a door in Rosemary Lane
that he applied to the person who kept said House who said she had bort. it
and the first time she see the person of whom she had bot. same she wod. Stop her
that on Thursday the 2d. day day of July instant this Deponent had information
where Prisoner was that he Accordingly went and took her says the
Petty coat produced is the property of Samuel Knightley and is of the
Value of Six Shillings. Jonathan Baker< no role > says on Saturday the
Twentieth day of June last about eight oClock in the Evening Prisoner
Came to the Shop of Mr. Windsor in the Minories aforesaid and offered a pettycoat [..]
to Pawns [..] for 4 Shillings which he believes to be the petty coat produced and
which he afterwards gave to Susannah Berry< no role > on Friday the 26th day of
June last she applying to take some out of Pledge and for which she paid him
four shillings and one penny Susannah Berry< no role > say on Fridaylastthe 26th
Jane Prisoner Applied to have and asked her if she would get some Money
to take a Pettycoatofout of Pawn that she asked her if it was her own
Pettycoat she said [..] it was a Woman who was gone to Portsmouth gave her
the Ticket that she went and took the same out of Pawn for which she
paid 4s. and one penny and took said Pettycoat to Prisoner Prisoner
desire her to sell it for she wanted money that she went and brought
five Shillings and Six pence for the same which she gave to Prisoner that
she then returned her the Money she had paid for taking it out. Martha
Edwards
< no role > says on Friday the 26th. June the Petty coat Produced was brot. to her
for Sate that she gave five Shillings and Six pence for it to said Berry

Taken and Sworn the day and
year first above Written before me}

R: Smith< no role >

Thomas Knightley< no role >
Jonathan Baker< no role >

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Susannah [mark] Berry< no role >
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Martha [mark] Edwards< no role >
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