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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lords<lb></lb>
the King holden in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo73"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo74">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo75">Guildhall</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo76">King Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo77">Westminister</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 sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc Before Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n47-1">John<lb></lb>
Hawkins</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ35">Reverend Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n47-2">George Booth</rs>
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Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n47-3">John<lb></lb>
Chetwode</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n47-4">John Spencer Colepeper</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ38">Esquire</rs>
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and others their<lb></lb>
Fellows <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ39">Justices</rs>
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of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the<lb></lb>
Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine<lb></lb>
divers felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanours committed<lb></lb>
in the same County</p>
<p n="48">Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n48-1">John Deane</rs>
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Did at the last General Session of the Peace Exhibit<lb></lb>
his Petition setting forth That on the eleventh day of April last the Petitioner was<lb></lb>
Convicted before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n48-2">John Staples</rs>
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Esquire one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ40">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo78">County of Middlesex</rs>
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of buying and receiving five ounces of wrought Silk<lb></lb>
(knowing the same to be purloined or Embezzled) the property of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n48-3">William Hopkins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo79"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo80">Lemon Street</rs>
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in the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo81">Saint Mary White Chapel</rs>
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in the said County<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ41">Silk throwster</rs>
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and by him delivered to be maufactured That previous to the<lb></lb>
said Conviction of the Petitioner one Elizabeth Pidgion who was employed by<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n48-5">William Hopkins</rs>
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as a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ42">Winester</rs>
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was convicted before the said Justices<lb></lb>
or some other of his Majestys Justices of the peace for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50673_geo82">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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of embezzling Silk entrusted to her to be manufactured the property<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n48-6">William Hopkins</rs>
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and thereupon the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n48-85">Elizabeth Pidgion</rs>
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made<lb></lb>
satisfication to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n48-7">William Hopkins</rs>
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by paying him the Sum of Six Pounds<lb></lb>
& Six Shillings being the value of the Silk the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n48-8">William Hopkins</rs>
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alledged<lb></lb>
she had embezzled of his property Whereby the said Elizabeth Pidgion<lb></lb>
compounded the said Offence with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n48-9">William Hopkins</rs>
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and the said<lb></lb>
Elizabeth Pidgion was thereupon forthwith discharged from the said conviction<lb></lb>
and that without receiving any Corporal punishment as by the Statute in<lb></lb>
such case made and provided is required to be Inflicted on persons Guilty of<lb></lb>
embezzling Silk entrusted to them to be manufactured That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n48-10">William<lb></lb>
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_n48-11">William Nicholls</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50673_occ43">Coal heaver</rs>
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and one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50673_n48-87">Elizh Hilliard</rs>
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persons no<lb></lb>
was entrusted or employed in any of the Silk manufactories of having bought<lb></lb>
and received of her said Elizabeth Pidgion the aforesaid embezzled Silk</p>
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