Middlesex
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The Examination of James Bolton< no role > of Walbrook in the City of
London Engraver , taken on Oath before me one of His
Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County
this Sixteenth day of March 1792

This Examination on his Oath saith That on Friday the
second day of March 1792 he went to the House of Francis
Rhodes< no role > of the Curtain Road Shoreditch , in the said County
of Middlesex Fortune Teller to have his Fortune told
he was usher'd into a Room, by the Daughter of the
said Francis Rhode< no role > 's and asked what he wanted
Informant told her, he wanted to see the Doctor, The
wife of the said Francis Rhodes< no role > , in a little time
afterwards came in, and damanded half a brown,
which she said was for a Box of Salve, and which
must be paid before Informant could be admitted to see
him, Informant refused to buy the Salve, and came
away saying he would call again, And further
saith That in the Evening of the same day, he went
again; The Doctor being engaged with Customers, he
waited about an Hour; in the interim the Daughter and
wife of the said Francis Rhodes< no role > talked with him about
their Customers saying That Wives frequently came to
know of the Doctor, whether they were to bury their
Husbands and Marry again, and likewise a Gentleman
came and the Doctor told him a Number in the
Lottery which would be drawn on or before the seventh
day, When a Bell Rung, the wife of the said Francis
Rhodes< no role > demanded of Informant half a Crown as before,
which he paid, and was them conducted up stairs to
the Doctor by his wife, she said Francis Rhodes< no role >