Middlesex
and
Westminster
}
The information of
Frances Butes< no role >
Charlotte
Jones< no role >
, and
Benjamin Burrows< no role >
taken before me
Sr
.
Edwd Bindloss< no role >
Bart
. one of His Majtys Justices
of the Peace
in and for the said County
[..] liberty
this 18 February 1786
Who being on their Oaths do severally say and first the said Frances Bates< no role >
both for herself say
that between seven and eight O' Clock in the Evening of Wednesday the 18 day of January last past
being then in Company with Charlotte Jurors< no role >
a Man (whose name they are since informed is
James Ellingsworth< no role >
followed them from Queens Square
into the Bird Cage Walk
in the Park
and after some Conversation come back with them to the Hoop and Grapes
in Queens Square
where he treated them with two half Quarters of Gin and then returned back with them to
the Bird Cage Walk
where he wanted to be Tree with Bates which She repasing he demanded
to be Satisfied for the liquor or he would take something in Taken [..] and then laid holden
her Cloak that in her repasing her Cloak he directly Stratched her That and Ribon from
her head and ran away on which She and Charlotte Jones< no role >
both of them Cried Stop Thief
and Benjamin Burrows< no role >
being then a Contind on Duty Stopt him with the Has in his hand
and confirmd him by the side of This Continel Box whits she went by his direction to the
Serjeant of the Guard (Mr Mason) who was then at the Bell Alehouse
Petty France
with
Corporat Fish which said Corporal Fish came with her directly to Burrows Continel Box
and Ordered him to Let Ellingsworth go who had her That still in his hands and Went may
with it
The Mark of
Frances [mark] Bates< no role >
and the said Charlotte Jones< no role >
doth for herself say that the was in Company with the said
Frances Bates< no role >
on Wednesday Evening the 18 of January last pasts and that What She
has deposed above is Strictly true in every Particular
Charlotte Jones< no role >
and the said Benjamin Burrows< no role >
doth for himself was that he was Continel in the
Park on Wednesday evening the 18th January last past that he took Ellingsworth into
Custody as above described and let him go by Order of Corporal Fish
The Mark of
[mark]
Benjamin Burrows< no role >
Middlesex
and
Westminster
}
to Wit
All three severally Sworn before me
the 18 February 1786
Edwd Bindloss< no role >