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18th. day of June 1770
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in
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Holborn who asked this Informant if he had seen two other Persons
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:donald, says the Said
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Round house to the said Henry Mc. Kew &
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same time that they had broke open a house that Morning and Stolen
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he went to the Said James Mc. Donald and Henry Mc.Kew to Clerken:
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to this Informant, that they all three went together to a Pond beyond
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the White Conduit house where they formd the Silver Spoons and
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Tea Tongs and French Plate Soup Ladle now produced, says that in
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who desired this Informant to keep back their
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Share of the Plate and says that the said
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came to receive their Said Share when they were
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taken, And the Said
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for himself says
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that on Monday last he went to
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to see the Said
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James Mc. Donald and Henry Mc. Kew, says they told him they had got
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some plate in Company with the said
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William
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which they desired this Informant to carry to the Said
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, says he did not then know the said
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John Underwood
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