Middlesex

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lords
the King holden in and for the County of Middlesex at the Guildhall
in King Street Westminister by adjournment on Thursday the
third day of July in the seventeenth year of the reign of our sovereign
Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc Before Sir John
Hawkins< no role > Knight the Reverend Sir George Booth< no role > Baronet Sir John
Chetwode< no role > Knight John Spencer Colepeper< no role > Esquire and others their
Fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the
Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine
divers felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanours committed
in the same County

Whereas John Deane< no role > Did at the last General Session of the Peace Exhibit
his Petition setting forth That on the eleventh day of April last the Petitioner was
Convicted before John Staples< no role > Esquire one of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the
said County of Middlesex of buying and receiving five ounces of wrought Silk
(knowing the same to be purloined or Embezzled) the property of William Hopkins< no role >
of Lemon Street in the parish of Saint Mary White Chapel in the said County
Silk throwster and by him delivered to be maufactured That previous to the
said Conviction of the Petitioner one Elizabeth Pidgion who was employed by
the said William Hopkins< no role > as a Winester was convicted before the said Justices
or some other of his Majestys Justices of the peace for the said County of
Middlesex of embezzling Silk entrusted to her to be manufactured the property
of the said William Hopkins< no role > and thereupon the said Elizabeth Pidgion< no role > made
satisfication to the said William Hopkins< no role > by paying him the Sum of Six Pounds
& Six Shillings being the value of the Silk the said William Hopkins< no role > alledged
she had embezzled of his property Whereby the said Elizabeth Pidgion
compounded the said Offence with the said William Hopkins< no role > and the said
Elizabeth Pidgion was thereupon forthwith discharged from the said conviction
and that without receiving any Corporal punishment as by the Statute in
such case made and provided is required to be Inflicted on persons Guilty of
embezzling Silk entrusted to them to be manufactured That the said William
Hopkins< no role > shortly afterwards procured the said Elizabeth Pidgion to lay Information
against one William Nicholls< no role > a Coal heaver and one Elizh Hilliard< no role > persons no
was entrusted or employed in any of the Silk manufactories of having bought
and received of her said Elizabeth Pidgion the aforesaid embezzled Silk