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<p n="336"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx ss</note>
The free and voluntary Examination<lb></lb>
and Confession of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n336-1">Robert Davis</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Parish of Saint Johns Evangelist in the<lb></lb>
City and Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45003_geo86">Westminster</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
County of Middx, <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45003_occ45">Lighterman,</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45003_occ46">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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for the said County this Sixth<lb></lb>
day of March 1758.</p>
<p n="337">This Examinant voluntaryly confesseth and sayth that<lb></lb>
on Saturday night last he feloniously state from the horse<lb></lb>
ferry at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45003_geo87">Westminster</rs>
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a Boat the Property of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n337-1">John Price</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45003_geo88">Westminster</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45003_occ47">Lighterman</rs>
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, and that he came down the<lb></lb>
River as far as <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45003_geo89">Wapping Dock</rs>
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and did then and there<lb></lb>
feloniously steal out of two Lighters a Quantity of Coals<lb></lb>
(about Seven Bushels) the Property of Persons unknown,</p>
<p n="338">Taken and Subscribed by the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n338-1">Robert<lb></lb>
Davis</rs>
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the day and year aforesaid<lb></lb>
Before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n338-2">Walter Berry</rs>
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<p n="339"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n339-1">Robert Davis</rs>
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