Middlesex
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The Information of William Moore< no role > of the Hamlet
of Mile End Old Town Poulterer taken on Oath before
me John Staples< no role > Esquire one of His Majesty's Justices
of the peace in and for the said County the 24th day
of January 1786 .

William Moore< no role > says yesterday afternoon as he was
in the Shop of William Phillips< no role > of Whitechapel Road Side [..]
Shoemaker offering him some fowls to sell and to give Order
for some Shoes for his Family The Prisoner who says her name
is Ann Meades< no role > came into the said Shop and asked how do you
do calling him Jim to which he answered he did not know
her That This Informant left his Basket of Towls in the said
Shop and went to the sign of the Dolphin a Public house near
with Two men and a Woman named Mary Exton< no role > Says soon after
his being in the said Public house the said Ann Meades came in
and set herself down close to him this Informant who gave her part of the
Beer says he staid in the said house about an hour when he
left the same and returned to the said William Phillips< no role > and soon
after the said Ann Meades followed him and asked to have the said Bash [..] et
which Mr. Phillips objected to as not being this Informants wife says
she said that she was his Neighbour and would see him safe home
Says he left his said Basket and went to go to the House of Mathew
Coker< no role > in whites Row Whitechapel That said Ann Meades followed [..] him
when near to Bakers Row in the said Parish he bed her go about
her Business he had nothing to say to her says She then laid hold of
him saying he knew her very well to be his Neighbour and that he should
drink tea with her that afternoon and that she knowd Mr. Coker well and
she would go and bring him to a Public House the Corner of Court Street
Whitechapel Road Side Says he went into the said Public house had a
Pint of Beer and Soon after the said Ann Meades come to him saying she
had seen Mr. Coker who would not come there But that she could take him
where said [..] coker was. Says they went together to a house situate
in Whites Row aforesaid where she said Mr. Coker was Says when he
got into the Passage she asked him to go up Stairs to speak to Mr. Coker
which he refused suspecting he was not there Says the said Ann Mead< no role > laid
hold of him and would kep him he endeavouring to prevent her saying he
had a Wife and several Children at home and did not want a Woman
Says she forced him up Stairs where as soon as he arrived a Man
gave him a Blow with a Bludgeon on the Crown of the head which
knocked him down