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The Money and the Person Who was with him when
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And this Informant
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William Gibbs
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saith that he is the
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that upon Thursday
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the third day of this Instant March he got up
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about four o Clock in the Morning in order to let the
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other Informant
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Walter Blackwell
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out that
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upon going to Open the Outer Gates of the Jom Yard
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he found them on Jarr and the Padlock with which
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they had been fastened the Night before broken
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two Pieces laying upon the Ground in the Gateway
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Upon which he examined the Yard & missed nothing
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but Immediately acquainted the other Informant
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Richard House
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with what had happened
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And this Informant
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Andrew Murphy
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for himself
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Great Saint Anden Street
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that the person now present who
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John Charles
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has lodged with
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this Informant about a Month that upon
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Wednesday the Second of March Instant about
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Twelve o Clock at Night the said John Charles
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brought the two Bundles of Ropes now Produced
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to this Informant in his Cellar & upon being
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asked what he was to do with them the said Charles
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bid this Informant put them by & he should take
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them away in the Morning & went away directly
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that about three o Clock on the Thursday Morning
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the said John Charles together with Thomas
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Higginbotham at Shelton came again to
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this Informant in his Cellar where the said John
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Charles delivered to this Informant a Bundle
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tied up in a Handkerchief & upon asking him
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what it was the said Job. Charles replied that
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it was some half pence & that these was th
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the
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amount of three pounds Sixteen Shillings and
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Six pence of them & upon this Informants
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Inquiring further how he came by them the said
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John Charles say'd he had them from his Mother
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in Part of Payment that Immediately after the
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