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23rd January 1786 - 18th December 1786

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The Examination of John Warren< no role > late Coachman
to Mrs. Mary Nesbitt< no role > of Norwood in Surry -charged
with Felony by the said Mary Nesbitt< no role > and taken
before me Nicholas Bond< no role > Esqr . One of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace in and for the City and Liberty
of Westminster this first day of December 1786 .

This Examinant says, that about three or four days after
the Robbery of Mrs. Nesbitts Stables at Norwood which was on
Tuesday the third of October last) he found all the Livery Cloaths
contained in the Green Bundle viz the Box Coat, the Grey Coat
[..] and the Scarlet Waistcoat, between
the Hay ricks and a Pile of Wood, behind Mrs. Nesbitts house
at Norwood-That it was about four o'Clock in the Afternoon
when he found then that he carried them into his own Room
over the Stables and put them under his Bed. That not
finding Abraham Watch and Breeches amongst them,
he did not inform Mrs. Nesbitt of it imagining that if he had
produced them without Abrahams Watch and Breeches, he this
Examinant Should be suspected of being the Thief. That about
a fortnight afterwards he this Examinant was going to Town
with his Carriage to fetch Mr. Rose when he took said Livery
Cloaths, which he found as aforesaid, and also his old Livery
Cloaths to No. 2 in Riding house Lane Portland Chaple , where he
saw Mrs. Atkinson, [..] Susannah Higgins< no role > being gone out
That this Examinant asked Mrs. Atkinson where he could leave
said two Bundles of Cloaths, who reptied that he might leave




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