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Middlesex To wit


The Information of Francis Parsons< no role >
taken before me this 26th. day of [..]

Who being upon Oath says that he knows Joseph Watsons< no role > [..]
Usher, Phillips Abrahams< no role > alias Scamps, Joseph Taylor< no role > , [..]
Munday, John Huckle< no role > alias Carpenter< no role > , William [..]
a Man who goes by the Name of Irish Jenny and his Com [..]
whose Name he does not know, says that he in Comp [..]
with all the above Named Persons hath been Guilty of
Robberies and Felonies, says that on Thursday Night
he this Informt. said Watson, Usher Scamps met to get
at Lumley's in Golden Lane , and agreed to go to Covent
Theatre to Pick pockets, says they went there but seeing
Wm. Marsden< no role > under the Piazza and some other
along with him they retired to the Angel in Charles Street
after which they were there Joined by said Munday [..]
Huckle, Hayes, Irish Jenny, and his Partner, and upon [..]
Fuller's coming into the House they then all went out [..]
agreed to go together to Leicester Fields , and there in Cranbo [..]
Alley Pushed down a Gentleman when Munday Pickt
his Pocket of a Gold French Watch Box & Case in one
that from thence they came all together to Covt. Garden Play-
-House , (first Eating some Ala Mode Beef up Stairs
together at the Black Prince in Chandoise Street ) that
then seeing Persons under the Piazza belonging to Sir John
Fielding
< no role > they went away to the House where they were taken, says
that Munday told this Informt. that he Taylor and Hayes
got three Watches the same Evening at the time the People
were going into the Play House and that the aforesaid
Carpenter recd the same from them as they got 'em
says that at the last Election at Chelmsford , he this Informes
Watson, Richd. Hitchins, & Collins (Commonly called the Pa [..]
all went together to that Place in Order to Pick Pockets




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