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Image 22 of 4585th January 1770


Middlesex To wit

The Information of Mary Thorne< no role > taken before
me this 5th. day of January 1770

Who being upon Oath Says that on Monday last she this
Informant was drinking at the Sign of the Princes head in
Long Ditch in Company with Ann Crump< no role > and Frances Scrivener< no role >
now present, that the Said Ann Crump< no role > proposed to them to go
to St. Giles's to pawn a Watch, that they accordingly went to
a Public house in Maynard Street where they met with two other
Woman Strangers to this Informant, that the said Ann Crump< no role >
produced the said Watch in the said Public house before the said
two strange Woman, that [..] the said two Woman went out
with the said Ann Crump< no role > and after Some time they all three
returned and said they had pawned the Watch for a Guinea,
that the said Ann Crump< no role > the said Frances Scrivener and
this Informant returned back to Westminster to the Hope in Bow
Street where the said Ann Crump< no role > gave this Informant Six
Shillings and likewise Six Shillings to the said Frances,
and further Says that the said Frances Scrivener declared at
the Sign of the Hope aforesaid that she had taken the
said Watch the Night before at Mr. Brown's in the Almonry
from a Man with whom she was to have lain all Night &
who did not give her any Money, and this Informant
further Says that a person now present who calls himself
John Murray< no role > was in the Public House in Maynard Street
aforesaid when the said Ann Crump< no role > produced the said Watch
there

Sworn before me
January 5th. 1770}

Mary Thorne< no role >




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