2d. Decr. 1715
Mr. John Badcock< no role >
added that just in the Dusk of
that Evening he Saw about 30 Blew Coates go along the
Side of Fleet Ditch
Huzzaing and that no other Mobb was
then amongst emAnd that on the 31st: about Ten at
night he Saw about 30 Blew Coat Boys with a great Mobb
(to the number of about 300. as near as he could guess) run
up Avey Mary Lane
Huzzaing and Crying out High Church
& Ormond but that he did not See any violence Comitted
Mrs. Elizabeth Wareing< no role >
Confectioner
Said there was
a great Mobb in Fleet Street
on the 31th. at night and that She
Saw 2 or 3. Boys in Blew Cloths amongst e'm
Brown & Cox after their Informations were read over
to them being Severally asked what they had Further to say
Brown answered that he was not above halfe a quarter
of an hour upon Ludgate Hill
on the 20th of Octor and knew not
what passed there for that he was at a distance from the Mobb
and that he was not out of the Hospital on the 31th. of Octor. &
being asked whether he Saw all the Beadles in the Yard
when the Boys got out the 20th he Said he Saw only
Gethm and Male.
Cox Said he could give no Further account than what
was contained in his Information And being examined
to that part which related to Hudson He Said He neither
knew nor heard that Hudson was rescued by any of the
Blew Coat Boys and all he knew of that matter was that he
heard Hudson himselfe Say he was Seized by a Constable &
a woman passed her word For him and So he was discharged
and Said that he did not Say before my Lord Mayor that he Saw
Hudson upon Ludgate Hill
but only he beleived Hudson was there
because he was with the rest of the Boys at the Bull
Alehouse
in the Evening and being asked How that came to be
otherwise sett forth in his Information and whether it was