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<p n="1120"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1156">Westminster</rs>
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to wit</note>
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The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1120-1">Mary Carroll</rs>
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charged<lb></lb>
with Felony by <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1120-2">John Dobison</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1157">Inner Temple</rs>
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Lane in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1158">City of London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ469">Gentleman</rs>
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, taken<lb></lb>
before, me <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1120-3">William Addington</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ470">Esquire</rs>
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One of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15097_occ471">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1159">Westminster</rs>
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this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15097_date167">24th. day of October 1786</rs>
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<p n="1121">Who saith that she did steal the Wearing Apparel and Plate from<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1121-1">John Dobison</rs>
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as charged by him, which Theft she committed<lb></lb>
by the Advice of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1121-2">Ruth Dean</rs>
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and her Husband (<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1121-3">John Dean</rs>
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) who<lb></lb>
live in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1160">Spread Eagle</rs>
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Court <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1161">Grays Inn Lane</rs>
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and which said Dean<lb></lb>
and his Wife stood at the bottom of the Stairs at No. 4 <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1162">Inner Temple</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Lane till this Examinant brought the Effects to them with which they<lb></lb>
all three went through <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1163">the Temple</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1164">Fleet Ditch</rs>
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where they got into<lb></lb>
a Coach with Mr. Dobison's Effects and drove to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1165">the Borough</rs>
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where<lb></lb>
Dean discharged the Coach paying one shilling and six pence That<lb></lb>
they all three went to a Public House up a Court in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1166">the Borough</rs>
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where<lb></lb>
they staid about two hours, during which time <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1121-4">Ruth Dean</rs>
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Pawned a<lb></lb>
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for four shililngs at Mr. Davidson's near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1168">Saint George's Church</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
a Shirt for five shillings at another Pawn brokers near that place That they then<lb></lb>
took a Coach and came to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1169">Ludgate Hill</rs>
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where Dean being drunk<lb></lb>
got out That said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1121-5">Ruth Dean</rs>
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and Examinant went to the bottom<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1170">Holborn Hill</rs>
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where said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1121-6">Ruth Dean</rs>
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got out with the Effects of Mr.<lb></lb>
Dobison saying that she knew a person in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1171">Oxford Street</rs>
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who would<lb></lb>
buy them and appointed this Examinant to meet her at the Wine<lb></lb>
Vaults at the bottom of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15097_geo1172">Holborn Hill</rs>
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at Nine o'Clock the next morning<lb></lb>
to receive her share of the Money for which the Effects were sold <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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but to which place she did no go nor hath she since seen the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15097_n1121-7">Ruth Dean</rs>
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or her Husband, nor can she tell what hath become of the<lb></lb>
remainder of the Effects</p>
<p n="1122">Taken and acknowledged<lb></lb>
the Day and Year aforesd: before me}<lb></lb>
W Addington</p>
<p n="1123">Mary Carval</p>
<p n="1124">Witness<obscured></obscured>
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