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<p n="2204"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2159">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination<del>and Confession</del>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2204-1">Richard Hopkins</rs>
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Charged with a<lb></lb>
Footpad Robbery Committed by him on the person of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2204-2">Silvester Casey</rs>
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on Saturday<lb></lb>
the Eighteenth of August Instant in the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2160">Saint George Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Taken the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date359">Twentieth day of August 1787</rs>
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before me One of his Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ766">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in and for the said County.</p>
<p n="2205">This Examinant Saith that he knows nothing of the Charge alledged against<lb></lb>
him with respect to the Robbery of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2205-1">Silvester Casey</rs>
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and that he is an Informant as<lb></lb>
the Child unborn, but that as he was going through the Alley which leads from<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2161">New Gravel Lane</rs>
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towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2162">Old Gravel Lane</rs>
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on saturday night last he saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2205-2">Silvester Casey</rs>
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upon<lb></lb>
the Ground in said Alley and a Bundle lying by him. That Examinant went<lb></lb>
up to said Casey and asked him what was the matter when he Called out<lb></lb>
Thieves and Robbers. that said Casey immediately got up and gathered several<lb></lb>
things up which lay scallered about him and put them altogher in an Old<lb></lb>
Handkerchief which was Toner after which he gave them to a Woman and<lb></lb>
then came up to this Examinant and sayed he was sure Examinant must he<lb></lb>
One by his Coming so soon to his Assistance, when Examinant told said Casey<lb></lb>
he would go<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
with him where he pleased and went with him into a private<lb></lb>
house soon after which he was give in Charge to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2205-3">Thomas Cole</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ767">Constable</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
Secured him in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2163">Shadwell Watch house.</rs>
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And this Examinant further Saith that he is<lb></lb>
by Trade a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ768">Watmaker</rs>
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and Worked last Week for his Brother <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2205-4">John Hopkins</rs>
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Hatmaker<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2164">the Maize</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2165">Tooley street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2166">Southwark</rs>
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<p n="2206">Taken and Signed<lb></lb>
The Day and Year abovementioned<lb></lb>
before</p>
<p n="2207"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2207-1">John Staples</rs>
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</p>
<p n="2208"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2208-1">Richd Hopkins</rs>
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