Middlesex Sessions:
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January 1794

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Middlesex
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The King
agt
Jane< no role > the Wife
of William Witteck< no role > }
For unlawfully Keeping
and maintaining a
certain ill governed and
disorderly House in the
Parish of Saint Mary
White Chapel

James Walker< no role > of Whites Yard in the Parish of Saint Mary White
Chapel in the said County Wheel Wright maketh oath and Saith
that on the twenty Sixth day of November last being on duty as
one of the Headboroughs of the said Parish of Saint Mary White
Chapel and being informed that there were several loose idle and
disorderly Women dancing and rioting in the house of the said Jane
Willick situate in Whites Yard aforesaid, He in Company with other
officers went to the said House and took several disorderly Women into
Custody and look thereinto the Watch house in order for their
beamenation the [..] before the Magistrates That on the
neat morning he this Deponent as was his Duty attended with
on said Woman at the Public office Lambeth Street White Chapel
that having stated to the Magistrates [..] is because carred by
the House of the said Jane Wittick< no role > He this Informant was asked
by the Magistrates whether he had any objections to be bound
over to prosecute the said Jane Wittick for unlawfully Keeping and
maintaining the said illgoverned and disorderly House to which he
this Deponent consented to be bound over as aforesaid thinking it
his Duty as an Inhabitant of the said Parish to put a Stop if Possible
to a nuisance of such dangerous tendency,That in Consequence of
such Consent he this Deponent was bound in a Recognizance dated
the 27th. day of November 1793 in the penal Sum of twenty pounds
conditioned for this Deponents appearance at the then next
Session to prosecute the Law with Effect against the said Jane
Wittick for the offence aforesaid, That he this Deponent was
Satisfied and fully intended to have attended at the there next Session
to have preferred a Bill of Indictment and prosecuted the Law with
effect against the said Jane Wittick according to the tenor of the




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