London to wit
Jane< no role > the Wife of Charles Cook< no role >
Indicted by the name of
Mary Cook< no role > Spinster .
at the Suit of
The Lord The King}

And Jane Cook< no role > who is Indicted by the name of Mary Cook< no role > late of London Spinster cometh here
in Court in her own proper person and having heard the said Indictment read she says that she is
the person in the said Indictment mentioned and intended by the name of Mary Cook< no role > Spinster and
she prays Judgment of the said Indictment because she says that on the day of the taking of the said
Indictment and always from the time of her Baptism heitherto she was called by the name of Jane and not by the name
of Mary and by the name of Jane hitherts was and yet is called and known and not by the name of Mary and
that long before the time of the taking of the said Indictment she was and yet is Covert of and the Wife of Charles
Cook who is still living to wit at London aforesaid in the Parish and Ward aforesaid and this she is ready to verify
Wherefore in as much as she the said Jane is not called by the name of Jane the Wife of Charles Cook< no role > in the said
Indictment she the said Jane prays Judgment of the said Indictment and that she may not be compelled to answer
the same.

J Morgan< no role >

Jane the Wife of Charles Cook< no role > of Bull and Mouth Street London Gentleman who stands Indicted by the name
of Mary Cook< no role > late of London Spinster for the Nusance and Misdemeanor mentioned in the said Indictment maketh
Oath and saith that she hath read the above written Plea And saith that the substance and matter of Fact therein
contained is true.

Sworn in open Court at Guildhall
London the 2d: day of October 1781 }

Jane Cook< no role >