Old Bailey Sessions:
Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents
OB | PS

1784

About this document type

Currently Held: London Metropolitan Archives

LL ref: LMOBPS450280094

Image 94 of 951


Middlesex to wit


The Information of Elizabeth Adams< no role > and Mary
White
< no role > taken on Oath the seventeenth day of
December 1783 before me one of his Majestys
Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex

This Informant Elizabeth Adams< no role > Saith That on Monday night
last between Eight and Nine o'Clock as she and her husband
was sitting by the fire in Company with Ambrose Cook< no role > This name instance is in set 1360. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . at their
Dwelling house in Crown Street in the Parish of Saint Giles in the County of
Middlesex she being a little sleepy she found the Prisoner Ambrose
Cook
< no role > This name instance is in set 1360. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . now under Examination with his hand in her Pocket and on her
rising from her seat the said Ambrose Cook< no role > This name instance is in set 1360. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . went out of the Room, immediately
And she thinking he had picked her Pocket she immediately searched and
found she had lost Two Nutmey Graters One Gumea in Gold and Nine shillings and six pence in
silver, and some Duplicates of Goods pledged and other papers And further
saith that the said Ambrose Cook< no role > This name instance is in set 1360. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . is the Person who so stole the same
from her as abovementioned, and further that the two pieces of Paper now
produced by Mary White< no role > were taken out of her Pocket at the same time
This Informant Mary White< no role > Saith that on Monday night last about
Ten O'Clock Ambrose Cook< no role > This name instance is in set 1360. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . the Prisoner now under Examination came
to her Dwelling house in Broad Saint Giles in the Parish of Saint Giles
in the County of Middlesex And told this Informant that his Father
was come to Town and he was to have Twenty Guineas the next day
and tookofout of his Pocket a Handfull of Silver to the amount
of twenty shillings at least she is possitive and shewed it her
telling her how he had been Relieved and then he put his money
into his waistcoat pocket And dropped two papers on the Ground
now produced by this Informant.

Taken and Sworn the day
and Year abovesaid before}

D Wilmot< no role >

Ely Adams< no role >
Mary Wiete< no role >




View as XML