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Westminster
To wit.

The Examination and Confession of Mary
Baker< no role > This name instance is in set 425. Widow taken before me Henry
Feilding< no role > Esqr . One of his Majesty Justices
of the Peace for the said City and Liberty
this 22d of November 1748.

Taken and confessed
before me this
22d of Novr. 1748
It Fielding

This Examinant confesseth and Sayth that
On Thursday the 17th Instant about Eight
o'Clock in the Evening (the being a daily
Servant employed by Mr William Hallett< no role >
of Newport Street St. Anne in the Said Liberty
Cabinet Maker) having had the Misfortune
to Spill Some Water on a large Silk Curtain
belonging to the said William Hallett< no role > the
Carried it to a Chandlers. Shop in White Lin
Street St. Giles . Where She unrist the Curtain
and took off the Wet Breadth whereas the [..]
carried it home where the left it till the
next Day on Friday the carried one Single Breadths
to Mr Party a Paw [..] in West Street St.
Anne who refused to take it in whereupon
the afterwards sold the said Breadth to one
Richardson in White Lin Street aforesaid
for the Sum of two Shillings and Six pences and
further sayth that She Sold the other those [..] Breadth
to two different Persons One Part or oneIndirect
a Widow in Another Street called likewise White
Lion Street in the Parish aforesaid for which the
recd One Pair of Shoes and one Pair of Stockings With Soul
Money but can not say as to the Sum The Sher
Part She Sold in Monmouth Street but has [..] not the
Shop nor the Name of the Person who keyes it for which
she had three shillings and Six pence and one fill Hand Writing

B: Justice Fielding is ill of the Gont
But Stephen Horman< no role > proves this Confession.

The Mark of
Mary [mark] Baker< no role >