"28 January, 1656/1657.â€â€Recognizances, taken before Tobias Lisle esq. J. P., of Edmond Jonson of Chicke Lane victualler, William Hudson of Saffron Hill button-maker and Anne Welding of Sepulchre's parish widdow, in the sum of ten pounds each; For the appearance of Anne Welding at the next S. P. to be holden for Middlesex at Hicks Hall, 'to answer the complaynt of Roger Maydley whoe accuseth her for assisting one Anne Lawton to intise and inveagle William Nicholis his covenant servant away from him to transport him beyond sea.'â€â€Also, similar Recognizances, taken on the same day before the same J. P., for the appearance of the said Anne Lawton at the same S. P. to answer &c. in the same matter. S. P. R., . . . ., 1656/1657." (1)
(1) John Cordy Jeaffreson, Middlesex County Records, Vol. 3 (London: The Middlesex County Records Society, 1888), 257.