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The Information of
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This Informant on his Oath saith that
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Informant on the 20th: of this Instant about two o'Clock in the Morning went
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to Bear Key and stole a Trunk which stood thereon which they put in a
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Boat and carried to Mill Stairs at Rotherfith, then
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to them that they opened the said Trunk in the Boat and
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put the Contents in three Sactes and Fling the Trunk Overboard which
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Contents were Parcels of Stationary Wares (s follows) several Reams
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of Paper, a Set of Books for Merchant's Compting House, Four Hundred of Quills
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several Pounds of Sealing Was and Wafers, two Pen knives a paper Case
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two Bottles of Red Ink, two Quire of blank Bills of Lading and several other
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Stationary Wares two of which Sacks the said Nicholls and Joyner carried
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to the Shore and put them into Joyners Mothers House who lives in a place
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called the Folly, the third Sack this Informant carried to the Ship and
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blue Ball in five foot lane, then this Informant on the Wednesday following
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went to the House of
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that he would buy any Stolen Goods and told the said
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Robins that he get some Stationary Goods which he and some others had
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taken off the Heys when the said Robins told this Informant that he would
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enquire and get some body to buy them that the next Day the said Robins
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came with two other Persons to the Duke of
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in the Folly
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and met this Informant who went with the other two Persons to
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House hard by where the Goods were remov'd to and Robins stayed behind
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that they opened at the several parcels of the said Goods when the said Two Persons
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bought several of the Goods of this Informant for which they paid him
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twelve Shillings that the said Joyner and Nicholls came to this Informant
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in the Evening of the same day when this Informant divided the Money equally
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between them excepting what they had Spent that they set Fire to the
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remainder of the Goods with Intent to destroy them to prevent discovery
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