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<p n="250"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo254">Middlesex</rs>
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The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n250-1">William Rutley Pratt</rs>
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<lb></lb>
charged with Burglary by <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n250-2">John Priestley</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo255">Saint Dunstan in the East</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the C ity of London <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15094_occ127">Grocer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and taken before me Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n250-3">Sampson Wright</rs>
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Knt..<lb></lb>
one of his MAJESTY'S <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15094_occ128">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo256">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15094_date51">28th. Day of March<lb></lb>
17 83</rs>
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<p n="251"> Who Confesseth that he this Examinant did break and enter<lb></lb>
the Dwelling house of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n251-1">John Priestley</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo257">Thames Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo258">City of London</rs>
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on Tuesday night the eighteenth of this<lb></lb>
Instant March and steal therein two pounds weight of Mace,<lb></lb>
a Box with Weight and Seales, a Coat, 3 Silver Salt Spoons,<lb></lb>
a silver Bottle Lable, a Silver gravy Spoon a Silver Wine Strainer and a Metal Spoon<lb></lb>
That the Mace this Examinant offered to Mr. Thos. Wright of Oxford<lb></lb>
Street who stopped the same as well as this Examinant. That the<lb></lb>
Box with the Weight and Seales were found in this Examinant's<lb></lb>
Box, That a Part of the Gravy Spoon and Strainer this Examinant threw<lb></lb>
down the Necessary house of the <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n251-2">Brown Bear</rs>
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Alehouse in Bow<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo259">Street Covent Garden</rs>
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and the remaining Plate this Examinants<lb></lb>
sold to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n251-3">a Hardwareman</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo260">Oxford Street</rs>
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for £0..17..6.<lb></lb>
That he sold the Coat to a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15094_occ129">Shopkeeper</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo261">Rosemary Lane</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
£0..7..0 and the metal Spoon he threw away in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15094_geo262">Oxford Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
And this Examinant further says that no person whatsoever was concerned<lb></lb>
with him in committing the said Burglary. That he entered the said Dwelling<lb></lb>
house at about half an hour past eight o'Clock concealed<lb></lb>
himself in the Cellar until the Family were in Bed and<lb></lb>
then robbed the House.</p>
<p n="252"> Taken before me the Day<lb></lb>
and Year above written,}</p>
<p n="253"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15094_n253-1">Sampn Wright</rs>
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<p n="254">Willm. Rutley Pratt</p>
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