Margaret Dowdwell proceedingsdefend and Alice Wright proceedingsdefend , were indicted for a Misdemeanour in inciting Jonathan Wild < no role > This name instance is in set 3033. to commit a Burglary and Felony on the House of John Cook proceedingsvictim . Mr. Wild deposed that the Prisoners came to his House about the 23d or 24th of January last, and wanted to speak with him in private;(upon which he lookt very earnestly at'em, perceiving one of them to be with Child) that he asking their Business, Dowdwell told him, that she had lost nothing, but wanted to find something, and that she would help him to a thousand Pound; nay she could help him to many thousand Pounds if he could procure stout Men to perform their part: and then proposed the breaking open the House of John Cook in Wormwood-Street near Bishopsgate , Cainchair maker , who had lodging in his House an ancient Maiden Gentlewoman who had at that time some thousand Pounds by her in Boxes under the Bed where she lay, and let out Money to use; she said the only Opportunity they had to break the House was to convey in some Person in the Evening and conceal himself in the Saw-pit in the Shop, and in the dead of Night to let their Companions in, and then take care to secure two sturdy psenticos and a Boy that lodg'd in the Garret , for they would be very refractory, and Dowdwell beg'd he would do it without committing Murder if he could possibly. Alice Wright < no role > replied that people when they go about such matters must defend their Lives as well as they can; the persons being thus secured it was an easy matter to come at the Gentlewoman's Money, which was in the Room underneath, and she gone into the Country to fetch more; the Room opposite was the Man of the House's, and if they went in there they'd find Money in his Drawers, for he never was without, but they must take a particular care of him for he was a very resolute Man, and it was no matter if he was knock'd on the Head; underneath the Room where the Man and his Wife lay, there lay a Gentlewoman with a small Child, and they were mighty desirous that neither the Woman nor her Child should be Hurt; and so told every part of the House, Mrs. Cook deposed that Mr. Wild came to her and acquainted her with the matter as before recited, and that his Description of her House was very particular and exact; that Dowdwell had lodg'd in her House 5 Months, and being very poor she would not turn her out, but she went away her self without giving any Notice or paying Rent. The prisoners confest the Matter before my Lord Mayor when apprehended. Dowdwell call'd some to her Reputation , who said she was a Captain's Window and had liv'd well, but was now reduc'd, Wright also call'd one to her Reputation, who said he knew nothing of her but that she had liv'd in two or three places where he us'd, and had a Child by a Gentleman of his Acquaintance. Upon the whole the Jury found them both guilty of the Misdemeanour. Imprisonment for six Weeks .