London Ss

The Information of Dorothea Pudner< no role > Wife of
Gilbert Pudner< no role > of Fleet Street London Haberdasher
and Sarah Manwaring< no role > Shopwoman of the said
Gilbert Pudner< no role > who being upon Oath severally
say and first the Informant Dorothea Pudner< no role >
for herself Saith that the Prisoner Alice Haines< no role >
came into the Shop in the Afternoon of the fourteenth
Instant and desired to see some black Lace and
this Informant, Husband shewed her a Drawer of
Lace and the Prisoner took out several Cards of
Lace & carried them to the Door to look at them
that this Informant having some Suspicion from
the Prisoners Behaviour who returned back to the
Counter & threw two Cards only into the Drawer
& asked the Price of one of them which she kept in
her Hand, this Informant threw back her Cloak
and upon the Prisoners lifting up her Arm this
Informant saw the Card of Lace slide down to
the Ground And this Informant Sarah Manwaring< no role >
Saith that she was in the Shop when the said Gilbert
Pudner served the Prisoner with the Lace, that
upon Mrs. Pudners laying hold of the Prisoners
Cloak this Informant saw the Card of Lace through
the Arm hole of her Cloak, before it dropt to
the Ground

Taken & Sworn at
Guildhall London this
16th. day of Novr. 1787
before me.}

D. Wright< no role >

Dorothea Pudner< no role >
Sarah Mainwaring< no role >