Middx Ss

The Informacon of Anne Steele< no role > of Prescott Streete
in white Chappell pish in the County of Middx
Widdow taken on oath this 30th day of May
Anno Dui 1701 .

Who Sayth upon oath yt She had lately att tymes on Severall
Sundayes Stolne from her Thirty Shillings out of her dressing Box att her
Lodging Roome Sute att the house of Anno Edwards< no role > widdow in
prescott Streete aforesd att Such tymes She was gone to
Church And yt thereupon last Easter Sunday this Informt:
prtending to ye family in the afternoone to goe to Church
with her Daughter & maid Servt: did privately with her
[..] maid Servt: Conceale herselfe in her Roome pposely
to watch the thiefe And yt within a very Small tyme one
Sarah Baxter< no role > (nott yett taken) Sister to the said Anne Edwards< no role >
& who Prtended to have dined abroad yt day & was abroad
when She & her maid concealed themselfes aforesd) Came
up Stayres & opened the dore of her Bedchamber (where
they concealed ymselfes) with the key thereof wth: hang
up or lay in the Dining Roome wth. this Informt: Lockt & tooke away
& the sd Sarah Baxter< no role > did thereupon Imediately goe to this
Informt: Dressing Box & with a false Key opened the Same
as she was Laying her hand on the Bag this Informt:
Seized her ye sd Baxter whereupon this Informt: ex [..]
agt: the sd Baxter & forthwith [..] was going downe Stayres & as
She was going downe the aforesd Anne Edwards< no role > mett her
& askt her ye matter, And the sd Edwards [..] said to ye sd
Baxter [..] Say notthing for your life Sarah on words
to yt effect And likewise She Saith yt the sd Baxter was abd: when
She went to Conceale her self as aforesd & noe pson then at home but
the sd Edwards, this Informt: & her sd maid Servt: whereupon
She this Informt: Suspects the said Anne Edwards< no role > to be
Concerned & Confederate together to Steale her sd