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The Examination & Confession of Eleanor Price< no role > taken before
Sd MrJury one of His Majesties Justices of ye Peace for this Citty

This Examinant saith (on Oath) That on Good Friday last she
was setting with Oysters near Temple Barr; & there came to her one John
Nash
< no role > & bought of her some Oysters, & asset her to go & Drink, which they did at
an Alehouse hardly. & afterwards they went together, towards Water lane
& went together to Drink in & House of Thomas Cass< no role > . Where ye sd John Nash< no role >
Meterded to Mary her & sent & sett [..] a Ring, cast 22s: & came back to ye house
of ye sd. Cass wth one Mary white< no role > & Margaret Biles< no role > , & there they
plyed ye said John Nash< no role > with Beer & Strong Waters till he was Drunk
& when the 3d May white & Margarett Biles had made him Drunk
he took his bag out of his Pockett to pay ye rechoning, & Margarett
Biles struck some of ye Money out of his hands, & pickt up she Ring he had
Bought & a Guinea & a peece or two mere, & went down stairs with it
Mary white< no role > who was all she time is ye Room called to bring her up
a Knife which was brott her, & she ye sd Mary White< no role > , cutt down his
Breeches to see if he had more Money is his Pocketts, that before
of Breeches were outt Mary White< no role > forced ye bag out of John Nash< no role >
hand & putt it in her Pockett; that when this Deponent came
down into ye Kitchin [..] white shewed her Six of ye Guinea
she had taken from ye sd Nash: she saith further ye Mary white< no role >
seemed to putt something two her become but she knews not what
it was; & yt Mary White< no role > gave her ye sd Eleanor Price< no role > three Guinea
of it & ye Ring for her share, & yt Mary White< no role > ye day afterwards took
fifteen shill from her, that Margaret Biles had ye aforesaid One
Guinea for her shall & further she saith yt Thomas Cass< no role > & Mary
White
< no role > took up Nash [..] between them & carried him out of
Doors & said him down is an Ally & their left him

Capt Aprill 1718
Coram me
John Fryer< no role >

ye Mark ye
Eleanor [..] Price< no role >




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