Reference
HSA1671/W/105
Title
Deposition:
Anne Piggott. Westoning. 6 February 1671.
Suspects Eliz.Beadles of stealing 9s. or 10s. from a purse in her petticoat pocket, the night they slept in the same room at the White Hart, Bedford. Elizabeth Beadles. Kimbolton. Spinster. 6 February 1671. Denies she stole the money from Anne Piggott. The information of Anne Piggot of Westoning in the county of Beds spinster taken before William Lane J.P. on the same day. This inf. sworn saith That upon Saturday the iiiith inst shee lay at one Thomas Beech his house (being her brother in lax at the sign of the White Hart, an inn in the town of Bedford. When this deponent went to bedd shee had in her pettycoate Pockett a purse of money af about 40s shee layd her sd. coate upon ber bedd, There lay with her that night in the same bedd this informants sister the wife of the sd. Thos Beech. There lay at the same time in a truckle bedd in the same roome where the dep. lay one Eliz. Beadles spinster. Shee [this] inf. never inquired into her purse till this morning being the 6th inst. When being risen shee having occasion to take out her purse found the same in her pocket, but by the weight she had a mistrust that somewhat was gon out of it, Whereupon shee told her money in the purse and missed thereof (as nere as she can guesse) nyne or ten shillings. There was none lay in that roome but the two aforesd. and this dep. that night, the sd. Eliz Bedles went the last of them to bedd, who when she want to bed locked the dore of the room on the inside. The examination of Eliz Beadles of Kimbolton Hunts spinster, before the same JP on the same day. This ex. saith that on Saturday the iiiith inst. there lay at Mr. Thos Beeches house at the White Hart in Bedford the sd. Thos Beeches his wife's sister one Ann Pigott. She lay in an upp chamber. There lay in bed with her at the same tyme this Exts Mrs. the sd. Thos Beech his wife. And in a truckle bed at their bedds foote shee this ex. lay. Shee this ex. did not locke the doore of the chamber that night nor doth shee know that it was locked. And being asked concerning moneys which she is suspected to have taken out of the purse or pocket of the sd. Anne Piggott she denieth that she took any such.
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