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Middlesex
to wit}


The Voluntary Confession of William
Clarke
< no role > taken the 20th. day of July 1789
before me one of his Majestys Justices of
the Peace for the County of Middlesex

Who Saith That he is an Apprentice to Mr. John
Berkiehead
< no role > of Gutter lane Cheap side London Jeweller
and that on Tuesday morning the fourteenth day of July
Instant about Two O'Clock in the morning he lett in two
men into his Masters house with an intent to take away
his plate and that about two O'Clock he came down
stairs and Unbolded the Kitchen door of the house which
Cads into the Yard and then went up stairs to bed again
and he heard no more of it till the Morning, Samuel
Coulson
< no role > and Joseph Jones< no role > were the two men, Jones and
Coulson being with him in Moorfields on the Evening before the Robery
Jones gave him this Examinant something to give to his
Masters dog which [..] Jones said was to Poison him
and he this Examant that night gave the Dog what,
he had before received from Jones, And on Tuesday Evening
the day of the Robbery being Committed he met Jones and
Coulson on Great Tower Hill And they gave him Two
Guineas and no more and said that Was his share, of
his Masters Plate and then he went home to his Masters, and saith
that he hath not since seen them

Taken the day and year
abovesaid before me}

John Spiller< no role >

Wm Clark< no role >

Witness G Stewart< no role >




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