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The Defence of
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Against the Indictment of
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Roger Robinson
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In Primis}
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May Please your Worship & Gents. of the Jury
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a
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by Occupation, when in
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Employ, and as he was going up
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on Wednesday Mornig
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the 16th.. of this instant May in Order to seek work, after a fit of sickness
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Called the Ague and Feavour) A Journey man Baker whom he had
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knownby sight and have of times served him with Yeast) when He lived Servt.
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to Mr Cox the Brewer for
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whom He
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worked full 14 Years) but as to the
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Names of the said journey man Baker He
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Knew not in any other
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to take a Couple of Quarterr Leaves out
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of the Basket then Standing by him, & to take the same and leave them
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at the
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in the Said Street and wait there till became upon
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which he set off with a not Loaf upon his Head and
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he the said
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Hughes did also set off With 2 Loaves in Order to Deliver them at the
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according to the Direction of the Said Bakersman - but before he
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the said Hughes had got many Yards he was followed by a man who
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was a
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who Stoped him and accested him and Called him
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their Swearing that he saw him the said Hughes Steal the leaves he
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had then under his
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the Basket and at the Wife of the
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arrangue between the Said
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and Hughes, the Baker belonging
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to the said Basket declared and Swore them Leaves to be his, upon which the
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sd Hughes was carried befoe a Majestrate at the Rotation Office in
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Bloomsbury
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from whence he was Committed to the
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to take his
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Trial at this Sessions for which he now Stands Arraigned at this Bar-
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But as He the said Hughes
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es himself Innocent as the Urborn Babe
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and that he knew No other than that the said Basket from which the said
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leaves were taken belonged to the Journey man first set forth who possitively
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tould him it was and the said Hughes declares he knew No other
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absolutly
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thought it to bes without the least grain of suspicious to the Contrary
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And the said Hughes as a further proof of his Innocence Setaforth
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the following Gentlemen whom he has served in the Occupation of a
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servant - first all with Mr. Coorp Brewer In
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. 16 Years as
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Drayman
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then with Mr Church of
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2 Years as
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stoker
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Is Brewer then
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with Mr Wilkinson of
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three Years as
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Barrell Washer
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, and finally that He served His Majesty as a
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in the thirty sixth Regiment of Foot Twenty one Years at Home and
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abroad for which he has Now got his
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Majesty
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The
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Case being Here Stated in Every word of Verity & Truth hope this Court
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