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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord the<lb></lb>
King holden in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo65">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at the Guildhe<obscured></obscured>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo66">King street Westminster</rs>
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by adjournment on Thursday the<lb></lb>
third day of July in the seventeenth year of the reign of our<lb></lb>
Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc Before<lb></lb>
Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n43-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ22">Knight</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ23">Reverend Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n43-2">George Booth</rs>
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Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n43-3">John Chetwode</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ25">Barnet</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n43-4">John Spencer Colepeper</rs>
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and others their Fellows <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ27">Justices</rs>
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of our said Lord the King assigned<lb></lb>
to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and<lb></lb>
determine divers felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanours<lb></lb>
committed in the same County</p>
<p n="44">Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n44-43">Abraham Heywood</rs>
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of the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo67">Saint Leonard Shoreditch</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ28">Weaver</rs>
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Did at the last General Session of the Peace Exhibit his Petition and<lb></lb>
Appeal setting forth That on the eleventh day of April last the Petitioner was<lb></lb>
convicted before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n44-1">John Staples</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ29">Esquire</rs>
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one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ30">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo68">County of Middlesex</rs>
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of buying and receiving five ounces of wrought<lb></lb>
Silk (knowing the same to be purlained or Embezzled) the property of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n44-2">William<lb></lb>
Hopkins</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo69">Lemon Street</rs>
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in the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo70">Saint Mary Whitechapel</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ31">Silk Throwster</rs>
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and by him delivered to be manufactured<lb></lb>
That previous to the said conviction of the Petitioner one Elizh. Pidgion who was<lb></lb>
employed by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n44-3">William Hopkins</rs>
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as a winster was convicted before the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo71">County of Middlesex</rs>
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of Embezzling Silk entrusted to her to be manufactured the<lb></lb>
property of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n44-4">William Hopkins</rs>
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and thereupon the said Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Pidgeon made satisfication to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n44-5">William Hopkins</rs>
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by paying to him the Sum<lb></lb>
of six pounds and six Shillings being the Value of the Silk the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n44-6">William<lb></lb>
Hopkins</rs>
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alledged she had Embezzled of his property whereby the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n44-65">Elizabeth<lb></lb>
Pidgion</rs>
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compounded the said Offence with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n44-7">William Hopkins</rs>
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and the<lb></lb>
said Elizabeth Pidgion was thereupon forthwith discharged from the said Conviction<lb></lb>
and that without receiving any Corporal Punishment as by the Statute in such<lb></lb>
case made and provided is required to be Inflicted on persons Guilty of embezzling<lb></lb>
Silk entrusted to them to be manufactured That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n44-8">William Hopkins</rs>
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shortly afterwards procured the said Elizabeth Pidgion to lay Information<lb></lb>
against one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n44-9">William Nicholls</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ32">Coal Heaver</rs>
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& one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n44-10">Elizabeth Hilliard</rs>
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no ways<lb></lb>
entrusted or employed in any of the Silk Manufactories of having bought</p>
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