Middlesex
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The Information of
Ann Jones< no role >
of No. 6 William Walk
in the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch
in the said
County Widow
Taken on Oath before me one of this
Majesty's Justices of the Peace
in and for the said County
this 24th. day of September 1795.
Who saith That being informed that a Private Lottery was
drawing in a Room up one pair of Hairs in a Stable Yard
nearly opposite Goodge Street Tottenham Court road
in the Parish
of Saint Pancras
in the County of Middlesex
kept by James
Freegrove< no role >
now in Custody, She went there on Tuesday Night
last the twenty second Instant between sea and seven oClock
and insured with Thomas Fellows< no role >
also in Custody Numbers
801 and 802 for half a Guinea each if drawn blanks or
prizes that Night and she paid the said Thomas Fellows< no role >
one shilling and five Pence for the said Insurances and the said
Thomas Fellows< no role >
wrote the Policy now produced and delivered
it to this Informant That she this Informant waited in
the Room about half and hour and during that time to the
best of her belief from Twenty to Thirty Persons insured
Numbers and paid Money to the said Thomas Fellows< no role >
That the said James Freegrove< no role >
walked Calewards and
forwards in the Room and Passage while the Insurance
were making and kept watching to see (as this Informant
believes) that no strangers were admitted That about
seven o'Clock the said James Freegrove< no role >
himself brought
form the Passage
two Lottery Wheels and placed them
upon a Table in the Room where the people were
waiting That a little Girl drew out the Numbers form
one Wheel and delivered them to the said James Freegrove< no role >
who opened them and called them out and one Mrs.
North who went with this Informant New the blanks
and Prizes from the other Wheel and delivered them to a
Woman, who first proclaimed them and then delivered
them to another Woman (called Mrs Jones) who filed
them with a thread and Needle and that the said
Thomas Fellows< no role >
was engaged at the Table in Writing
down the Numbers and the blanks and Prizes in a small
Book as drawn That the drawing continued about