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Image 12 of 23124th February 1784


London to wit

The joint and several Informations of Mary
Baster
< no role > , Servant to Samuel Cannadine of Cheapside ,
London Pastry Cook , Sarah< no role > the Wife of the said
Samuel Cannadine< no role > , Lydia House< no role > Cannadinehis Daughter neice
and Peter Plummer< no role > , Servant to Thomas Wilson< no role > of Friday Street
Who being on Oath severally say And First the
said Mary Baster For herself saith, that on Saturday
Hight last about half an hour past ten O'Clock, as
she was waiting upon her Mistress at Supper, in a
Parlour adjoining her Masters Shop, she observed
the Prisoner now under Examination, John Lloyd< no role >
rise up From under the Counter and goint out of the
Shop Informant instantly went into the Shop, and
kept the Prisoner in her Eye, and Followed him For
about ten Yards in the Street, when she plainly
saw the Prisoner give something underher his Arm,
and which Informant believes was her Masters
Till and Monies contained therein, to a Man who
seemed to be waiting in the Street to receive the
same Saw that the Man who received something
From the Prisoner run across the Way, and Informant
came up and secured the Prisoner , who was
immediately surrounded and brought back into her
Masters Shop And the said Sarah Cannadire< no role > For
herself saith, that about half an hour before the
above Transaction, she had occasion to go to the
Till, when there were half a Guinea in gold two half Crown Pieces, about
ten Shillings in Silver, and some half Pence Says,
that instantly as the Informant Baster gave the
above Alarm, she went into the Shop, and discovered
the Till and Contents thereof to be missing, and is
Fully satisfied the same were stolen by the
Prisoner John Lloyd< no role > And the said Lydia
House saith, that about a Mary to before the Alarm
the Till with one half crown Pieces, ten Shillings
and some half Pence were in the Shop And the
said Peter Plummer< no role > For himself saith, that he saw
the Prisoner give something to a Man waiting in
the Street, as described by the other Informant
Mary Baster< no role >

Taken and Sworn a Guildhall London
the 24th February 1784 before me}

Mary Bastard< no role >

John Hart< no role >

Sarah Cannadine< no role >
Lydia Haw< no role >
Peter Plummer< no role >




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