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Image 43 of 13513th April 1745


Window and got part of his Body In and took out a blue Grey Coat and a
Hanger which hung under it, her gave the Coat to Jeffs and kept the Hanger
to himself and as they were going ever the Fields he ordered Jeffs to search
the Pockets of the Coat in which they found a Plain Stock Buckle all Silver
a Woollen pair of Gloves and a piece of Chalk which they carried to Mrs Lucas
but she not being at Home this Examinant carryed them up Stairs into the
Room where he commonly lay and left it there and locked the Den after him
and took the Key with him and went to Jeffs to a place he had appointed to
meet him at where Martin came to them and told them that he had sold the
great Coat this Examinant said Martin and Jeffs got off a Coach Box which
was in a Court Yard near Saint Sepulchres Church the Sunday Night before
to Mrs Lucas for four Shillings and six pence and some Handkerchiefs they had
taken the same Night for seven pence and Martin and this Examinant returned
to Lucas where soon after Jeffs came and this Examinant fetched down the Coat
and Stock Buckle which Mrs Lucas examined and after some Argument they
sold the Coat and Stock Buckle for nine Shillings and one Shilling to be sent
to her Husband Joseph Lucas< no role > who was then in Newgate and divided twenty
Pence to each of them Martin having spent the odd penny and this Examint.
and Jeffs divided four Shillings and six pence back. for the other Things and
the Hanger they kept themselves.

Bye & Jeffs


Southampton Row
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WB

Saith That he this Examinant with the said Jeff about the fourteenth
Day of April last lay at Church Lane Saint Giles, in two different Houses
Jeffs called this Examinant about Six o'Clock in the Morning to go out and
they went to see what they cou'd get till they came to Southampton Row the
back of the Duke of Bedfords House where they turn'd down a Court the middle
of the Row and saw a Stable Door open and then Man cleaning the Houses
then Jeffs entered the Coach House adjoining to the Stable and came out
again and told this Examinant there was a Fire new Grey Tog (which
signifies a Great Coat) then they went in and Jeffs took dow the Great Coat
from the Place where it hung and put it into this Examinants Apron who
carryed it to Glocester Court in White Cross Street to Mrs Clayton's aforesaid
where Susannah Clark< no role > lodged who came down and examined it and be [..] at of them for
nine Shillings which this Examinant and Jeffs divided between them and had
four Shillings and six pence each.

James Bye< no role >




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