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The Examination of Isaac Kennedy< no role > , apprehended
and brought before me Paul Le Mesurier< no role > Esquire
one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace For the
said City, by Samuel Harper< no role > and John Armstrong< no role > ,
and charged as a Regue and Vagabond, having
upon him the said Isaac Kennedy< no role > , an Iron Crow, and
dark Lanthorn, with an Intend Feloniously to break
and enter into a dwelling House, Warehouse, Coach
House, Stable or OuthouseWho being on
Oath saith, that he believes he is now twenty three
Years of AgeSays, that at the Age of Fourteen
Years or thereabouts, he was bound Apprentice to
his late Father, Isaac Kennedy< no role > , deceased, who
was then a Weaver at Bethnall Green , and
served his said Father two or three Years, when
he entered on board the Canada Ship of seventy
Four Guns, and went to the West Indies two or
three Years, when he returned to England and
was discharged

And this Examinant Further
saith, that he went directly after he was so
discharged, and worked with his Father, with whom
he continued untill about two Years ago, when
his said Father died, since which he this
Examinant hath not been in any regular Work
or Employment, but sometimes worked on the
Keys.

And this Examinant Further
saith that with respect to the Lanthorn and Crow
Found in his Possession, at the time he was
apprehended, he picked them up in a Horse Ride
opposite to Angel Alley , Bishopsgate Street , on
the same Evening he was apprehended

Taken and Sworn at Guildhall
London 20th April 1786 before me}
Paul Le Mesurier< no role >

Mark
Isaac [mark] Kennedy< no role >
his