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26th June 1780 - 8th December 1781

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Image 72 of 38131st January 1781


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The Information of Wm Leith< no role >
of No 30 Bishopgate Street London
Surgeon taken upon Oath before me
Henry Kitchen< no role > Esquire one of the
Aldn of the said City this 31st Janry
1781 .

whobeingSaith that on Saturday night the Twentieth day
of January Instant about the Hour of Twelve o Clock as he
was going to his Ledgings in Bishop Gate Street , he met the
Prisoner Catherine Williams< no role > near his Lodgings who asked him to
goes withtoher to her Ledgings on Cock Hill Bishop Gate Street
which he accordingly and and was then Asked by the Prisoner for
some thing to Drinkandwhen he sent her out for some Brandy
andthisshe returned with a Shillings worth and the servant of the
Public House with Change for a Guinea that soon afterwards
another Woman Came into the Room when this Informant and the
Prisoner [..] were and undressed herself and went to Bed, that
thereupon Informant also undressed himself and went to Bed to
her leasing the Prisoner at the Fire Partly undressed. that before
Informant went to Bed he hung a Gold Watch his Property
upon a small Nail near when the Prisoner satandhis
Coat and Waistcoat upon the Bed and his Breeches shees and
Stockings on the Floor near the Bead that he put the change
for the Guinea into his Breeches Pockett. That soon after
he went to Bead he heard the Prisoner go out of the Room
where upon Informant looked for his Watch and percased




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