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said Gold at the Refiners in
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came out he told this Informant the Refiner scrupled at his having
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such a Quantity of Gold and that he then sent this Informant in
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to buy an Ounce of Sterling Silver and to hear what they said,
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says he was afterwards at the said Lyons house with
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now in Custody when he heard him declare to the said Lyons that
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he would not take less than forty pounds for the Rings, that he also
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told Heatley that Lyons had some Rings to sell that the said Heatley
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offered to buy them but the said Lyons told him he had got a better
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Customer, says the said Lyons afterwards told this Informant
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he had got another piece of Gold that would fetch about £24
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ways that some time ago the said
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near Aldgate
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stole a Silver Dish and Some Muslin which the said
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sold says when Mr. Nesbitts house was broke open this Informant went
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in first and found a Case which he opened and found some Silver Spoons
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then came into the said
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house, says he this Informant tied up the said Spoons in a Handkerchief
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and delivered them to the said
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, says that by a Bell ringing
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in the house they were alarmed and this Informant took the said Spoons from
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the said
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and gave them to the said
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says
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that he this Informant and the said
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then went out of the front
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door into the Yard and the said
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went out the same way they
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had come in, that the said
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made his Escape ever Wall
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which this Informant could not do, that the said
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then called
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to this Informant and asked him why he did not come along says he
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laid the said Spoons and Handkerchief Men in a Corner of the Yard
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Sworn before me
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John Bromley
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