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<p n="1419"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo904">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination and Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1419-1">Samuel<lb></lb>
Wilson</rs>
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taken and made on Oath before me<lb></lb>
one of his Majestys Justices of the peace in<lb></lb>
and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo905">County of Middlesex</rs>
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the thirteenth<lb></lb>
day of September 1781.</p>
<p n="1420">Who on his Oath saith that he is a Bricklayers Labourer<lb></lb>
and works for <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1420-1">John Lee</rs>
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a Bricklayer in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo906">Bunhill Row</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Saint Lukes and that on the third day of September instant<lb></lb>
he with one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1420-2">Joseph Freeman</rs>
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a Bricklayer who likewise work<lb></lb>
for the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1420-3">John Lee</rs>
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were sent by Mr. Lee to repair a<lb></lb>
House belonging to Mr. James Cranch at Bishop Benners<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo907">Bethnal Green</rs>
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in the said County. That the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1420-4">Joseph Freeman</rs>
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and this Examinant by the Order of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1420-5">William Beer</rs>
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the Carpenter employed in the said Repair<lb></lb>
took the Tiling from off the Top of the House together with<lb></lb>
about a Hundred weight of Gutter Lead which they carried<lb></lb>
into the Yard. That on the same Evening the third of September<lb></lb>
after this Examinant and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1420-6">Joseph Freeman</rs>
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had<lb></lb>
finished there work the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1420-7">Joseph Freeman</rs>
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proposed<lb></lb>
to this Examinant that they should steal some of the<lb></lb>
said Lead and sell it, which this Examinant made no<lb></lb>
Objection to, and accordingly this Examinant and the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1420-8">Joseph Freeman</rs>
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took away, each of them a piece<lb></lb>
of Lead, weighing in the whole about thirty nine Pounds<lb></lb>
which the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1420-9">Joseph Freeman</rs>
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proposed to this Examinant<lb></lb>
to sell in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo908">Whitechapel</rs>
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. That this Examinant and the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1420-10">Joseph Freeman</rs>
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carried the same into <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo909">Whitechapel</rs>
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