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<p n="684"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo725">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n684-1">John Booty</rs>
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taken on<lb></lb>
Oath the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date124">Ninth day of February 1786</rs>
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before me<lb></lb>
one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ282">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo726">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="685">Who on his Oath Saith That on the or about the first day<lb></lb>
of February Instant he fell in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Company with a Blackman<lb></lb>
who calls himself by the name of Peter in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo727">Holywell Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo728">Parish of Shoreditch</rs>
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towards the Evening of that day<lb></lb>
and after some Conversation together they parted and<lb></lb>
met together on <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo729">Holywell mount</rs>
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the next day near to<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo730">Holywell lane</rs>
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And further saith that on the<lb></lb>
Sunday Following the fifth day of February Instant this<lb></lb>
Examinant and the said Blackman Peter met<lb></lb>
together in the afternoon at a Public house <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo731">the Sign<lb></lb>
of the Red Lion</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo732">Holywell Lane</rs>
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aforesaid, and that<lb></lb>
they both being destitute of money or provision they<lb></lb>
agreed to go out and steal some thing to sell for money of for<lb></lb>
their support and accordingly went to a house in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo733">Steward street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo734">Old Artillery Ground</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo735">Spitalfield</rs>
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<lb></lb>
there being a house unoccupied they together went in<lb></lb>
at the Window of the said house and went up Stairs<lb></lb>
and cut and carried away from the Gutter of the said<lb></lb>
house a Quantity of Lead now produced by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n685-1">Thomas Hill</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n685-2">William<lb></lb>
Robinson</rs>
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<p n="686">Sworn the 9th. day of<lb></lb>
February 1786 before<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n686-1">Chas Triquet</rs>
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<p n="687">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n687-1">John Booty</rs>
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