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The voluntary information of
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Francis Leech
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otherwise Lish taken on Oath
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before me
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one of His Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace
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in and for the
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County of Middlesex
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this
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14th: day of April in the year of our Lord 1775
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Who saith that on Thursday the Sixth day of April instant or in
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the Morning of Friday the Seventh about two in the Morning he
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this informant together with one
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William Kirk
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went to the
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Callico Grounds of Mr Hatcher at
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Wandsworth
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in the
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County of
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Surrey
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Callico
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Grounds
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Printer and went over some Pales and from
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thence into the Grand and took from thence
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four
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three pieces of
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Muslin and one piece of Linen and afterwards hid two
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pieces of the said Muslin and the said piece of Linen in a field
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near the three Goals Head in there Road to London and one
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of the said pieces of Muslin they brought to Town with them
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Saith that soon after they had taken the said pieces of Muslin
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and Linen out of they Ground they met one
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Mary Lucas
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(whom they left at
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Putney
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in there way to
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wandsworth
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who
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went
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came with him this informant and the said
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William
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Kirk
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to an Ale House near
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Westminster Bridge
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and drank
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some Purl there and from thence went to a place called
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the Ambury in
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at
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westminster
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and there sold the piece of
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Muslin they brought to Town with them to two young
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Men and a Woman big with Child for thirteen
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eighteen
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shillings
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being at the Rate of one shilling per yard saith that
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the time
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it was about eleven o'Clock in the Morning when they sold
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it Saith that in the Dusk of the evening of the same day
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he this informant the said
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William Kirk
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and
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Mary Lucas
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went to the said Field and brought away the said three
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pieces of Muslin they left therein in the Morning and
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then
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came to back to
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westminster
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next Morning and carried and
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