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The joint and several Informations of Robert Norman< no role >
of Canon Street London Hatter , Thomas Hartley< no role > of
Fish Street Hill London Glover , John Harris< no role > of Canon Street
London Hatter, Thomas Consby< no role > of Goswell Street in the County
of Middlesex Chair Carver , John Dinmore< no role > of Pear Tree Court
Clerkenwell Middlesex Watch maker, and Joseph Said of
Crooked Lane, London Hat Makee under Edmond Fleming< no role > of Drury Lane Middlesex Pawn broker who being severallymakeon Oath
say as follows and first this Informant Robert Norman< no role >
for himself saith, that on the sixteenth day of March last
Martha Ford< no role > a Woman now present brought to this Informants
and partners Shop forty pieces of Breede, and offered to sell the
same, and he accordingly bought the same at ten pence a piece
says, She appeared as the Maker, and had sold several parcells
of the same at the Shop says, that after he had paid her
for such parcel of Breede, he observed her to haveanother
Parcel of Cropt Bands in her Hand, which she did not offer to him to sell, and
this Informant enquired of her whether she sold Crape Half and,
She replied they did not belong to her, but to a Lodger, of her and that she
was going to carry them to an Undertaker at Cripplegate , but that
he might take them as theisLodger had more at Home; says, she
ask'd seventeen pence a piece for them, but this Informant acquainting
her that he & his partners never sold crape Habbands, for more
than a Shilling a piece, and that he could not give more than ten
pence a piece for these, she took the money for them, and gavethis
Informant directions to where she said she lived, which was in
Wheeler Street Spittalfields , where she said she kept a House
as soon as said Ford was gone this Informant took two of these
Hatbands to the Informant Thomas Hartley< no role > , to enquire of him
the value, and was informed by him that the Hatbands , he shew'd
him were worth twenty six Shillings a Dozen, and declared that
the person who Sold them must have come by them dishonestly
this Informant thereupon gavetheDirections to the Place where
the said Martha Ford< no role > said she lived, and was informed by Mr. Hartley< no role >
that he had been enquiring in wheeler Street and could not hear
of any such Woman being a House keeper there;outafter wards
this Informant went with another persons into Wheeler Streets
to enquire after this Woman and could find no such person
there, and it was then concluded to let matters rest until she
should call at Informants said shop again that this Informant
was told she came to the shop the Week after but as he was not
at Home nothing was done, and on Thursday last she came again
to his Shop with a Quantity of Girdlesoutsome Welvet and Breede
and this Informant Kept said woman in Discourse until he sant
his Boy for Mr. Hartley, and when he came this Informant told
him, that that was the Woman of whom he had bought the
Crape Hatbands< no role > , she was then ask'd where she lived, and as before
said in Wheeler Street Spittalfields , but appeared to want much
to go away, butbeingwas informed that these things were suspected
to have been stolen, and that she must be stopt that enquiry had
been made after her in Wheeler Street , and no such person could
be found, she then said that a Man of the Name of Bloude who lived