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The King
agt.
James Hyatt< no role >
John Clark< no role >
John Williams< no role > }
for feloniously R [..]
Stolen Goods

John George< no role > of Customhouse Court near the Customhouse London Merchants
watchman James Penpraise< no role > of Shadwell in the County of Middlesex Victuall
John Rowff< no role > of the same Place Sugar Baker and John Manby< no role > of the Custom house Loud
Gentleman one of his Majestys Coast Waiters severally make Oath and say and first
the said John George< no role > saith that in the night time of the twenty fourth Day of
January last he had in his Care and Possession eleven hogs heads of Tobacco the
on Board a Lighter lying at Galley Key London and for which he was responsible
and that in the same night upwards of Seventeen hundred Weight of Job
was stole out of two of the said Hogsheads by persons unknown which
Tobacco was worth nine pence per Pound to the Merchant And the said
James Penpraise Saith that he this Deponent and Joseph Watson< no role > and Hen
Henry Faulkner< no role > who stand Indicted for the same did about twelve o Clock in the
night time of the said twenty fourth Day of Janry go on board the said Lighter
together and break open two of the said eleven Hogshead and steal
of the same about seventeen hundred Weight of Tobacco which they Told
the same Night and early the next Morning in four Seperate Quantities to
the said John Rowff John Clarke< no role > John Williams< no role > and James Hyath< no role > for Six
Pence per Pound and saith that they the said James Penpraise Joseph watson< no role >
and henry Faulkner< no role > sold to the said James Hyath about 400 Weight of the said
Stolen Tobacco the same night about 2 o Clock in the Morning at his house
Shadwell aforesaid about 500 Weight of the said Stolen Tobacco to the said
John Williams< no role > between 3 and 4 of the Clock in the Morning at his House in
Shadwell aforesaid and about 300. weight more of the said Stolen Tobacco to the




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