London ss
1689/90
27 Jan

Mary Cox< no role > aged Seaventeene yeares or thereabout
being Examined doth Declare that liveing in the house
of Francis Deacon< no role > of London Shipmaker Shee was
Intreed to ye Pavaemy of her said Mr. by John Price< no role >
Thomas Fisher< no role > Elias Savage< no role > & his wife Amie Savage< no role >
& another person whose name shee has forgotten, thatt
they advised her to gett ye shey of her mistrisses dressing
box whare their money was kept wch haveing toe done
she gave itt to Elias Savage< no role > & he tooke ye marke or
pront of ye Said they in a peice of Clay & returned
the Key buck to her againe, a day or two after ye
Sd Savage brought her a falce key wch would open the
Dressing Box by wch meanes She tooke out of a bay
in the said Box, Severell Small sumes of money as
two three five tenn & twenty shillings att at [..]
wch shee used to doe three or fawer tymes in awake
that shee begone this practise aboute a month after
shee came to her masters service wch was at Michaelmas
last was twelve months that thee has soe defranded
her master of aboute forty pounds likewaise that
when the above said persons Price Fisher Savage
& the other person came to her masters house wch
they often did after her master & Mistrisse ware in
bed, they did alwaise carrie away Some of her masters
goods, belonging tothehis trade as Whips Whiplands
& Strings to the vallue of tenn Shillings Each tyme
And whareas the house of Tymothy Tayler< no role > neare [..]
to ye house of the aforesd Frances Deacon< no role > was
broken open and he Robed of Cheese & Butter to
the vallue of five pounds, Shee doth declare that the
above said Persons, ware those thatt did Robe the said
house, that shee directed them to the window whare they
broake into the house, that shee was wth them when they
did the Fact that they Carried to her masters house thro
greate Cheeses & She Small one & a firkeing of Butter
& that they Carried away the said Cheeses & butter from
her aboute halfe have after, they brought ym in to the houses