Middlesex
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The Examination of John Timmings< no role > Charged
in the Felony Taken this 14th. day of March 1788 before
us two of his Majesty's Justices of the peace in and for
the said County

John Timmings< no role > says he had been Ill and out of Work excepting Three
or four Days as a Labourer for Three months past That he went into
[..] the field where he was apprehended seeing Mr. Swanson and
his Brother to ask them for work That he cannot say why he went
from them says he throwed the Two Iron bars produced away because
he thought they might belong to them and because they called to him

Taken
and Signed this 14 March 1788
Before us

John Staples< no role >
Peter Green< no role > [..]

his
John [mark] Timmings< no role >
Mark