Middlesex
to wit
The Information of
Mary Carter< no role >
of New Brentford
Widow
Taken before me this 20th: day of May 1760
Who being upon Oath says that on Wednesday the 7th: Instant, She was
a passenger in a waggon drawn by thro Houses, from Windsor to Brentford
aforesaid, says that about 8 o Clock at Night near the ten Mile Stone on
Honnslow Heath a Titled Cart drawn by two Horses, overtook and
Passed the said Waggon, that a Person accompanied the said Cart on
Horseback whose Name as she has since been Informed was William
Roberts< no role >
a Servant to the Right Honble William Pitt< no role >
Esqr. says
that when the said Cart had so passed the Waggon as aforesaid the sd.
Wm: Roberts Struck the fore Horse of the Waggon with the Butt End
of his Whipps and that upon the Waggon is a String what did he do
that for, again repeated his Whipping the said fore Horse with
more Violence and Whipped him and the other Hones out of
the Road tho' the said Cart had Room enough and was then
Actually before the Waggon, says, that [..] a Chairman in the
said Waggon, whom She believes to be one William Robinson< no role >
now Deceased
then called the said Roberts Black Guard that the said Roberts
than Struck at the Passenger in the Waggon several times
with his Whip, and Sold them if they did not like that they shou'd
have this, at the same time drawing his Hangers And this