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

Middx et Westm^r } Ss The Information 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 Elizabeth Usher for about eight or nine weeks last past, and hath heard the said Elizabeth 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 Said Maurice Trant was one of the designed Assassinators of his most gracious Majesty King William, and that he was one of the thousand pound men and broke out of Newgatem and had he not done so he should have been hanged, and that M^r Secretary Vernon had Obtained the Kings pardon, for the Said Trant and that he doth now lodge within the liberty of Westminster very privately, and that it was not upon the account of the Intended assassination that the Said Maurice Trant lived so retired and obscurely but for some other cause of dangerous consequence, and this Informant farther saith upon her oath that since she had this relation or account from Elizabeth Usher as aforesaid <1v> she this informant hath seen the 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 Informant by what she has heard and observed from the discourse of Elizabet Usher doth beleive the Said Maurice Trant to be an ill and a dangerous person against the present government.                                         Mary Lee Capt: et Jurat ann: et die supra dict: coram J Stanley