Middlesex
to wit
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The Examination of
Mary< no role >
the Wife
of
Mary
William Waterlow< no role >
of Phenix Street
in the Parish of Christ Church
in the
County of Middlesex
Weaver
Taken and Oath before
whs
two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace
in and for the
said County this 26. day of August 1795.
Who saith that she went yesterday afternoon beforeaboutfour
or five
o' Clock to the House of the Prisoner
William
Cheverell Perrin< no role >
in the Curtain road
in the Parish of Saint
Leonard Shoreditch
in the County of Middlesex
, understanding
that he was an astrologer, who could give her an Account
of a gown that she had lost either on Sunday Evening or
Monday Morning last Upon asking Whether a person
did not live there who resolved Questions, she was told
by a Man in the House (
John Hide< no role >
) he did and told
the Examinant to sit down. The Prisoner come
from the other room to where the Examinant was and
asked her whether it was a loss, the Examinant said
ye sr. and asked the Prisoner whether he could inform
her where she might hear of it whether it was
pledged or sold, or she might any way get it
the Prisoner stopped a long time and looked at his
books and then told her That a tall genteel person
dark eyes and dark haired And had three Moles
about her one under cur left Breast, one on her
arm and the other on her back, was the Person
that had Stolen it And this Informant further
Saith that the Prisoner told her that in the
course of fifteen or twenty one days, she should
hear of her gown, and that he the Prisoner
believed it was pledged and not sold, and after
looking over his Books now produced and studying
some time he desired her to make a strict enquiry
repeating again that she would hear of it at the
Pawn brokers ship And this Examinant further
saith that when she was coming away she asked