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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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and I Said no thare was none at that Time but thare had
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Been Money kept thare when I first Came he asked me
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if thare was not a Chainge Draw Under the Counter that
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My Master kept the Money in I said
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he then askd me what my Master Did with the
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Money and where he kept itt and Said he had a very good trade
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and take a great deale of Money and Cannot Carry it all in his
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Pocketts I told him that I did not no of Any Money that was kept
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Any where in the House but What was in the Money Draw in ye. Shop
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and what My Mastr. and Mists: Caried in there pockets he
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very Often and at Other times frequently presed me To Leave
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Open My Masters. Chamber door that he might Look on the
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Tankard and that on Munday ye. 19th. June 1749 he very mutch
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Pressed me to Leave Open the Chamber Door
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Saying to me that I was very Bare in Cloaths, and that I had
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but one gown to my back and if I Would but Doo as he would
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have me he would give me some money to buy me some Cloaths
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he then Oferd me three gineas to buy me some Cloaths, and with
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a Great Deale of Perswaisssions I Did take the Money and
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then he Perswaieded me as I had been told that one of my
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Guardians was dead to go and buy
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a Black Hankercheife
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and a gown and a Pr. Stays and Gloves and Capps. and a Cloak with a
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Black fann so that I Might Apear as one in Mourning for
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the Death of my Guardian in Order to Blind my Master and
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Mists, that they Might not to how I Came by the Things
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And he Ordered me that if my Master and Mists. Asked me
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how I Came by theese things. to Say to Them
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