Mary Lee: The Information of Mary Lee 4 February 1701/2

|Middx et Westm^r } Ss| The Informaion of Mary Lee taken upon oath this 4.^th day of Feb:^r 170$\frac{1}{2}$.

Who saith that she this Informant has been acquainted with one Elizab: Usher for about eight or nine weeks last past, and hath heard the said Eliz: Usher severall times name unto her this Informant one Maurice Trant whom the said Usher did say was an Irish papist, and lately come from France, and did also day that the S^d Maurice Trant was one of y^e designed Assassinators of his most gracious Ma:^ty King William, and that he was one of the thousand pound men and broke out of Newgatem and \had/ he not done so he sh^d have been hanged, and that M^r Secretary Vernon had Obtained y^e Kings pardon, for y^e S^d Trant and that he doth now lodge within y^e liberty of Westm^r. very privately, and that it was not upon the account of y^e Intended assassination y^t y^e S^d Maurice Trant lived so retired and obscurely but for some other cause of dangerous consequence, and this Inform^t farther saith upon her oath that since she had this relation or account from Elizab: Usher as afores^d <1v> she this informant hath seen y^e said Maurice Trant and saith that he is a pritty well set man, middle stature, round face with very full black eye brows wearing a greyish coloured coat without any sword, and that she this Inform^t by what she has heard and observed from y^e discourse of Eliz: Usher doth beleive y^e S^d Maurice Trant to be an ill and a dangerous person against y^e present government.                                         Mary Lee Capt: et Jurat ann: et die supra dict: coram J Stanley