Middlesex
The Information of
William Davis< no role >
of Herbert Passage Beanford Buildings
Strand
in the said County Taylor
and
Jane Mc. Donald< no role >
of Great Gardens
St. Catherines
in the said County Widow
Taken upon Oath
[..] this 23d day of
February 1789
Before me
Robert Smith< no role >
Esqr.
one of his Majesty's Justices of the
Peace
in and for the said County and first the said
William Davis< no role >
says on
Saturday Night last he was accosted by the Prisoner
present who says her
Names is
Mary Wall< no role >
and said she would shew him the way to St. Pauls
[..]
that she look him to a House in Saint Catherine
where they went and had
some thing to drink that they went to Bed when he put 3 Guineas in Gold and
Eight Shillings in Silver into his Stocking keeping his Stockings on and
but ned his Breeches knee up and went to Sleep that when he awoke in the
Morning found his Stockings had been Taken off and the Money Taken out
and the said
Mary Wall< no role >
gone away Jane Mc. Donald says about Twelve
o'Clock on Saturday Night the said
William Davis< no role >
and Mary Wall Came to
her house and asked for a Bed that they had something to Drink when
she gave Mr. Davis Change for Half a Guinea that when she gave him Changed
she
[..] saw 3 Guineas in his Hand that she Recd. Eighteen pence for the Bed
and one Shillings for Liquor that Mr. Davis put the 3 Guineas and Eight
Shillings into his Pocket and went to Bed that about an Hour after they
had been gone to bed
Mary Wall< no role >
came to her room door and said she
wd. not agree with Mr. Davis and desired to be let out that as servant did
let her out Accordingly that when they went into the Room the Next Morning
they found said
Mary Wall< no role >
's Stays and Handkerchief which she had left
behind her
Taken and Sworn the
day and year first above
Written Before me}
Rob. Smith< no role >
Wm Davis< no role >
her
Anne [mark]
DavisMc. Donald< no role >
Mark