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Middlesex to Wit

The Information of Mary Lever< no role > Thomas Shirley< no role >
Samuel Renshaw< no role > Sarah Burnes< no role >
and Thomas Cross< no role > taken before me this
fourth day of March 1783

Who being upon Oath say, and first the said Mary Lever< no role >
says that she went about a fortnight ago to lodge with one Mrs
Hughes in the Garret at No. 2 in Bedford Court near White Hart
Yard Drury Lane and took with her two Boxes and a
Trunk now produced containing her Wearing Apparel
That said Mrs. Hughes having us convenience to Lodge
she sat up all Night and the next Morning set off to her
Brothers at Hammersmith (having her said Boxes and
Trunk of Wearing Apparel in the Possession of the said Mr. Hughes)
That she staid at Hammersmith about a Week and when
she returned she found all her things safe That as she
was coming down stairs from the said Mrs. Hughes's Room she
saw a Person now present who calls herself Ann Witney< no role >
That she went into said Ann Witneys Room the Parlour
in said House and asked her if she knew where she could
lodge, That she told her she could notThat she this
Informant then asked said Ann Witney< no role > if she could shep
in her Room that Night and that in the morning she
would get a Lodging-That the said Ann Witney< no role > told
her she might Sleep there for a fortnight if she pleand
and desired this Informant to bring her Boxes down which
she didThat she slept with said Ann Witney< no role > three
Nights and the next Morning she told the said Ann Witney< no role >
that she was going to her Brothers and should
not return till next day That when she went away to go
to Hammersmith a Person now present who calls himself
Robert Edwards< no role > , another Soldier & the said Ann Witney< no role >
and another Woman now present who
calls herself Sarah Taylor< no role > were in the said Parlour




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