Middx
and
Westmr.}
to wit
The Information of
Mary Griffiths< no role >
at the Globe Tavern
in Fleets street
Spinster
, taken before me this 20th.
day of April 1749
.
Who being upon Oath says that in June last she lived
as a Servant
with a Person now present who calls himself
Robert Fawcet< no role >
who then Lodged in the house of Mr. Giblett
an Engraver at Islington
, Says that one day in the said Month
of June between Eleven and Twelve of the Clock in the forenoon
she this Informt. went up Stairs into her Master's Bed Chamber
with an Intent to call him to Breakfast, Says that when she
went in, she found her Master (the said Robt. Fawcet< no role >
) Lying Naked
upon the Backside of one Wm. Carpenter< no role >
since Deceased (the Bed
Cloathes not being upon them at that time) and upon this
Informts. going Into the aforesaid Room, the said Robert Fawcett< no role >
gott off the said Carpenter and presently afterward saw him
whipe his private parts with his Shirt And this Informt.
further says that from the reasons aforesaid she verily beleives
that they Committed the Detertable Sin of Sodomy betwixt
them, Says that [..] upon her asking her Master if he was not
ashamed [..] of being Guilty of such An Action, hereplyed
that it was an Unhappy gift that God has given him, and he
could not Live without it, Says that she spoke to Carpenter
at the same time and asked him the same Questions, To which
he Replyed her Master would never let him alone, and that he
the said Fawcet had, ruined the said Carpenter's body and Soule
Sworn before me
this 20th. April 1749
.}
H Fielding
her
Mary 3 Griffis
Mark