Middlesex Sessions:
Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents
SM | PS

August 1786

About this document type

Currently Held: London Metropolitan Archives

LL ref: LMSMPS508130030

Image 30 of 191


Middlesex
to wit}


The Deposition of William Cope< no role > of Potters Bar
in the said County of Middlesex Shop Keeper taken
on Oath before me Paul Pechell< no role > Esquire One of
His Majesty's Justices of the Peace For the said
County this Second Day of August 1786

Who Saith That Some Time in the Spring of this
Year a Person Calling hereof Ann Simmonds< no role >
who lived with her Husband at Potters Bar
came to his House For some Eatables and not
having Money to pay for the same Left a Cloth
Cloak now Produced as a Pledge For the Same
That on the First Day of his present Month of August
James Collier< no role > came to him to Esquire of him For
a Constable to take the said Ann Simmonds< no role > into
Custody For Stealing some Linen From his Mother
that he this Deponent being Constable went with
him For that purpose [..] upon Searching of her
Lodging he Found a Coloured Hand kerchief now
Produced which the said James Collier< no role > affirmed
to be his Mothers Property

Wm. Cope< no role >

Sworn before one
Paul Pechell< no role >




View as XML