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23rd December 1762 - 28th December 1762

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an Eating House or Cook's Shop in Gray's Inn Lane
and went up Stairs & there were a pair of Drawers
& one of them said let us see what's here & broke them
open & took out three or four Aprons & other Things &
Sold them to Dunbar who keeps the White Horses
at the Upper End of Grubb Street for [..] half a Guinea that
one of the others took the Money but does not know
whether he had any share of it.

That Wilkinson & Gregory went with this
Examinant to a House near Cripplegate which was
either the Plumbers or the next to it, that he get in
backwards & Wilkinson Aftersum and Gregory Stood
in the Street that a little Watchman Saw him and
likewise Wilkinson, that Wilkinson Provided [..]
the Ladder, which they once took out but get Nothing
with it, they took a Punch Ladle & Milk Pot & sold
it to Dunbar for 3s 6d P Ounce; that they get one
Table spoon & a pye twas In & the People being
alarmed they went away & left the Pye on a Wall
this was in Moorfields Neighbourhood, that the
Watchmen, were called.

That this Informant & Tompkins & Chas. Morgan< no role >
were together at Dunbar's, & the first thing one said
to t'other where shall we go to get something or to
that Effect, one of them (not himself nor does he
know who) said he knew of Shop were Things
stood in the Window, that they were all a little in Liquor &
agreed to go out together (not a great Way from
Dunbar's) this was about two o'Clock before they
began to do anything a (People being to walking
about very thick) Chas Morgan< no role > went to buy a
Knife to cut the Shutters & went into a Shop in
White cross Street & run away with a Knife without
Paying for it, he begun with cutting the Shutter




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