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Image 184 of 46613th March 1786


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The Examination of George
Marmaduke Metcalf< no role > of No. 1 Round
Court Saint Martins Le Grand
taken upon Oath the 13th. Day of
March 1786 .

Saith that about Two Months ago Mr. Godfrey
of Newgate Street London pointed out the Prisoners Green
and Oliver as Cheats and that Examinant saw the said
Green afterwards habited like a Clergyman with Two
other Persons, and that the said Green harted to a Countryman
whom he met, that he the said Green wished to with a
few Lines into the County, That the said Green stopt by
the Cross Keys Inn near the Threshold of a HairDresser 's
Shop at which place the said Countryman left him. That
the said Green came up to this Examinant and damned
him and threatened to run at Stick down Examinants
Throat, That he this Examinant in the Morning of
the fourth instant saw the said Green in Lombard Street
habited like a Country Gentleman in Company with
the other Prisoners Howlett, and Oliver, and that the
said Prisoners went through Grace church Street , and
passed different Sides of the Way, and from thence to
Cornhill, and that Mr. Draper a Friend of this Exami-
-nant's followed the said Prisoners to the Changed, there
the said Oliver crossed the Street, and accosted a Gentle-
-man in [..] the Passage leading under the Scaffold at
the Bank of England , and the said Gentleman there
left him the said Oliver. That he this Examinant
followed the said Green and Oliver to the Bank aforesaid

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