At the Sessions

The KIng
against
Mary Bates< no role > Alias Clarke< no role > }

William Garnons< no role > of Stratton Ground in the Parish of Saint
Margaret Westminster Carpenter & Julius Caesar Smith< no role >
of the Parish of Saint Martins in the Fields in the County of Middlesex
Cordwainer Jointly & severally make Oath & say, and first these
Deponents say, that on the thirty first Day of December last,
they these Deponents and one Henry Hancock< no role > were in Company with
Samuel Ferguson< no role > the Informer in this prosecution (as the said
Ferguson told these Deponents which they verily believe to be true) at the sign of the
Five Bells a publick House in Chancery Lane , when the said
Ferguson the Informer did declare and say; that he the said
Ferguson, had wrote several Letters to the said Defendant, before
she was taken into Custody, the Contents of which were; that
If she would make him same Restitution, he would not take her
up, but otherwise he would; upon which the Deponent William
Garnons asked him, What he would have with the poor woman,
and the said Ferguson make answer and said; If she had given me
twenty Guineas, I would not have taken her up, but note, I will
have forty Guineas, to which the Deponent Garnons replyed
you are bound in a Recognizance of Forty Pounds to Prosecute
what will you do about that, to which the said Ferguson
Answered, I will have ten Guineas in Hand and Charles
Clarke's Note of Hand for the other thirty Guineas and
upon the Receipt of the ten Guineas and the Note of Hand
I will Immediately disappear and lease the Kingdom or to
that Effect and there Deponents further say that the said Mrs.
Charles Clarke< no role > is a Clock or Head Servant of the said Defendant
as these Deponents have been informed and verily believe and
this Deponent Julius Caesar Smith< no role > for himself saith that the
said Ferguson hath several Times admitted to this
Deponent that he had Entered into a Recognizance
before George Wright< no role > Esquire one of his Majesties
Justices of the Peace for the City and Liberty of
Westminster in Forty Pounds to prosecute the said
Defendant Mary Clarke< no role > and lastly these
Deponents say that they verily believe, this