Middlesex
&
Westminster }
to wit

The Information of Margaret Bond< no role > of
the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields
in the said County of Middlesex and Liberty
of Westminster Widow Taken and sworn before
me (One of His Majesty's Justices of the
Peace for the said County City and Liberty)
this 13th. Day of January 1781.

Who upon her Oath deposeth and saith That on or about
the 20th. day of October last past one Levy a Sheriffs
Officer and his Follower came to her Apartments in Broad
Street in the Parish of St. James Westminster and broke
open the outer Door thereof and arrested for a supposed
or pretended Debt of Thirteen Pounds nineteen Shillings
from whence they conveyed her this Deponent to the said Levys
House in Chancery Lane , That on the same day Edward
Longford< no role > a Stonemason, in whose House she then lodged
came to this Deponent and offered to bail her and that he would
procure another House keeper to join him therein if the said
Margaret Bond would give him as a Security to indemnify
him an Jorventory and Possession of part of the Goods or Furniture
in her said Apartments to which proposal she agreed Accordingly
an Inventory of Goods and Furniture to the amount and valued
at the Sum of Thirty two Pounds the Property of this Deponent
was given to him But notwithstanding he had this ample Security
in his Hands he left this Deponent in the Bailiffs House under
a Promise of returning to bail her yet he never came to her
again nor performed what he engaged to do, he sent this Deponent
his Note of hand for the said Sum of Thirty two Pounds payable
in Six Months after Date and Sold the before mentioned Goods
at a Broker for fifteen pounds a few days after this Transaction
and before this Deponent was released from the said Arrest
And this Deponent further saith That on Thursday the 26th. day
of October following after this Transaction the said Edward Longford< no role >
with two of his Brothers namely Arthur Longford< no role > and Daniel
Langford< no role > did feloniously take and carry away One goose feather
Bed One Looking Glass a Chest of Medicines One Box containing
a large