London

Sessions House in the Old Bailey

The King on the Prosecution of
Thornhill Widow
against John Brown< no role > otherwise Robinson< no role >
now in Newgate on an Indictment for said
against him in 1760 for Felony and
Burglary.

Elizabeth Plunkett< no role >

of the parish of Saint Mary Matfellon otherwise white
Chappell in the County of Middlesex Spinster maketh Oath and saith
That the Defendant in this prosecution having been only taken and
apprehended on this prosecution on or about the twenty sixth day
of November last past (and now in custody in Newgate aforesaid
same) One Elizabeth Thompson< no role > Spinster the only Pr [..]
Witness on behalf of the said Prosecutrix in this Prosecution and on
whose Evidence chiefly the Bill of Indictment was found against
the said Defendant in the above Prosecution (as this Deponant
hath been credibly informed and verily believes She the said
Elizabeth Thompson< no role > was persuaded and prevailed upon on
the very day the said Defendant was taken up and apprehend-
ed on this Indictment (through the mitigation of the said Defraud
and his a Shorcuts) wilfully to abscond and go out of the way [..]
lyand on purpose to give the said Defendant are opportunity of
Escaping from this Prosecution, for want of having the benefit of
her Evidence and Testimony (as She the said Elizabeth Thompson< no role >
himself informed her this Deponent on the very day She so
absconded and which She this Deponant verily believes to [..]
true) And this Deponant further Saith That the said Defendant
hath been formerly Convicted of a Capital Offence in this Honourable Court
and afterwards obtained his late Majesty's next gracious Pardose, upon Constable
of his being Transported per for fourteen Years; which accordingly he was and
returned back again from thence before the expiration of his Time (as many
of this Deponants' particular acquaintance can hearby make appear, and
as She this Deponents' herself verily believes to be true) And this Deponant
further Saith That he the said Defendant in the Year One thousands fur [..]
hundred and fifty eight in this Honourable Court Convicted two of his
Accomplices of Felony; and does now belong to a so soon cause & now raise
gang of Thieves and Robbers (as this Deponent hath been informed
verily believes) who now supply him with the means to pursue and
methods of defeating all Crimmiland Capital Prosecution that [..]
he carried on or commenceal against him; and by the strength of [..]
hath now sought the means of childing that Justice Law to his Crimes and
of [..] upon this Honourable Court to screen himself from Justice
And Lastly She this Deponent Saith That She is sum that if this
Honourable Court shou'd be pleasant to put off the said Defendants Fryal
on this Prosecution until the next [..] General Quarter Sessions in next
January Thatas against that time,
that lawfull means may be and to being the said Elizabeth Thompson< no role > out
of the County (from whom She now is) in order then to be produced as the
for in up at Witness to Support the Indictment as Said in this Prosecution

Sworn in Court
December 7th. 1763
By the Court

The mark of Elizabeth
Plunkett< no role >