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<p n="1150"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo721">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Voluntary Confession of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1150-1">William<lb></lb>
Clarke</rs>
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taken the 20th. day of July 1789<lb></lb>
before me one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ219">Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo722">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="1151">Who Saith That he is an Apprentice to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1151-1">John<lb></lb>
Berkiehead</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo723">Gutter lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo724">Cheap side</rs>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ220">Jeweller</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and that on Tuesday morning the fourteenth day of July<lb></lb>
Instant about Two O'Clock in the morning he lett in two<lb></lb>
men into his Masters house with an intent to take away<lb></lb>
his plate and that about two O'Clock he came down<lb></lb>
stairs and Unbolded the Kitchen door of the house which<lb></lb>
Cads into the Yard and then went up stairs to bed again<lb></lb>
and he heard no more of it till the Morning, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1151-2">Samuel<lb></lb>
Coulson</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1151-3">Joseph Jones</rs>
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were the two men, Jones and<lb></lb>
Coulson being with him in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo725">Moorfields</rs>
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on the Evening before the Robery<lb></lb>
Jones gave him this Examinant something to give to his<lb></lb>
Masters dog which<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Jones said was to Poison him<lb></lb>
and he this Examant that night gave the Dog what,<lb></lb>
he had before received from Jones, And on Tuesday Evening<lb></lb>
the day of the Robbery being Committed he met Jones and<lb></lb>
Coulson on <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo726">Great Tower Hill</rs>
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And they gave him Two<lb></lb>
Guineas and no more and said that Was his share, of<lb></lb>
his Masters Plate and then he went home to his Masters, and saith<lb></lb>
that he hath not since seen them</p>
<p n="1152">Taken the day and year<lb></lb>
abovesaid before me}</p>
<p n="1153"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1153-1">John Spiller</rs>
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<p n="1154"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1154-1">Wm Clark</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1155">Witness <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1155-1">G Stewart</rs>
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