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The Information of Edward John Aplin
Apprentice to Thomas Tookey< no role > of Monkwell Street
London, Working Silversmith , Who being on Oath
saith, that about half an hour after eight O'Clock
last Night, he was going down Ludgate Hill , in
his Way to Tavistock Street< no role > , with Six Silver desert
Spoons and a pair of silver tea tongs, to be taken to
a Customer of his Master'sSays, that at the End
of a Court Next before the Bell Savage Inn , the
Prisoner , Mary Floyd< no role > , now under Examination
stood with another Woman not [..] present
the Prisoner accosted Informant, and taking hold of
his right Arm, she pulled him close to a door way
Informant endeavoured to exticate himself from her
hold, and seeing his handkerchief nearly out of
his Pocket, he got away from the Prisoner, as he
was satisfied had an Intention to steal his handkerchief
Informant walked away about ten Yards, down
Ludgate Hill , and then the six Spoons and the tea
tongs occused to him, and upon searching his
Pocket, where the handkerchief was, and where he
had put the Plate, the same was missingInformant
instantly returned to the Spot where he was accosted
by the Prisoner, and Found, that she was gone
Informant went by the way of Fleet market into
Fleet Lane , Where he met the Prisoner, and laid
hold of her, charging her with stealing the six Spoons
and tea tongsthe Prisoner said Informant much
have dropt them at the Place, where they stood together
Informant and the Prisoner went together there, and
she stooped down as though to pick up something when
Informant heard the Prisoner drop the Five Spoons,
and the tea tongs now Produced, which are the same
he lost in manner aforesaid, are the Property of his
Master, and of the Value of Forty Shillings and