Middlesex Sessions:
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December 1793

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The Information of Joseph Austin< no role > of Holywell
Mount in the Parish of Saint Leonard
Shoreditch in the said County Victualler .

Who on his Oath saith That lately there has been
feloniously stolen taken and carried away from this
Informant's House the Sign of the Antelope on
Holywell Mount aforesaid a quantity of Rum
Gin and Brandy his Property and this informant
saith that David Brancher< no role > Pot boy to this
Informant hath confessed to this informant that
the stole the said Liquors and sold the part
thereof to the prisoner Judith Perkins< no role > who persuaded
himthis informantto steal the Liquor: and that he
also sold and gave the remainder thereof to Ann
Sweatman
< no role > (a Chairwoman at the house of this
informant), who also encouraged him to steal Liquor.
And this informant further saith that he verily
believes tha the said Judith Perkins< no role > and
Ann Sweatman< no role > received the said Liquor knowing
the same to have been stolen.

Joseph Austin< no role >

Taken and Sworn before me this
20th. November 1793}

P Colquhoun




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