ABSTRACT
I Have followed Gambling and Defrauding these five Years last past, and lived on the Spoil of other Men’s Substance. About the Middle of February, 1749, I and John Brown, alias Dawson,1 Mary Brown,* and Mary Davis, met all accidentally at Litchfield, on a Fair Day, and after some Ceremony we all agreed to go and drink a Glass of Wine; accordingly we went to Mr. William Brooks’s, at the George Inn, in the said Town, and were shewn up Stairs; we had not been there long, before Mary Brown espied a large Chest, and said, here is a Chance the Lid being loose, and her Hand but small, she pull’d out of the said Chest one yellow Silk flower’d Damask Gown, one green Silk ditto, one brown Silk ditto, and one black flower’d Silk Capuchin,2 which Mary Brown carried out of the said House in her Apron, to the Place were our Horses were: We all made the best of our Way to the B – D – g [Bull Dog], near Westchester, where we divided the above Goods among us four. I believe the Goods were worth about sixteen Pounds; the Landlord and Landlady of the B – D – [Bull Dog] very well knew us to be Thieves, and that we lived by nothing else, and also know almost all the Thieves that travel, and harbour them.
