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<p n="1150"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50885_geo551">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n1150-1">John Short</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50885_occ284">Rogue and<lb></lb>
Vagabond</rs>
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apprehended by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n1150-2">Thomas Riches</rs>
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<lb></lb>
one of the Patroles of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50885_geo552">Parish of Christ<lb></lb>
Church</rs>
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in the said County taken before<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
this 6th. day of June 1793.</p>
<p n="1151">Who on his Oath saith That he is upwards of Sixty<lb></lb>
Years of Age, that he gets his living by working<lb></lb>
as a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50885_occ285">porter</rs>
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and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50885_occ286">carrying Goods</rs>
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, And further saith<lb></lb>
that his legal place of settlement is in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50885_geo553">Parish<lb></lb>
of Christ Church</rs>
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aforesaid by renting a <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50885_geo554">House in<lb></lb>
Spital Street</rs>
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at the Rent of Ten Gunieas a Year for<lb></lb>
two Years and upwards and paying the Poor Rates<lb></lb>
and other Taxes for the same, about eight or<lb></lb>
nine Years ago service which time this Examinant<lb></lb>
has done no Act to gain him a Subsequent <lb></lb>
Settlement</p>
<p n="1152">The said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n1152-1">John Short</rs>
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refused to be sworn or to Sign the above Examination<lb></lb>
but acknowledged the same to be true</p>
<p n="1153"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50885_geo555">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination of the above named <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n1153-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Riches</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n1153-2">Lydia</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50885_n1153-2" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50885_occ287">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n1153-3">Henry Cockle</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of No. 3 <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50885_geo556">Phenix Street</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50885_geo557">Parish of Christ<lb></lb>
Church</rs>
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aforesaid.</p>
<p n="1154">This Examinant <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n1154-1">Thomas Riches</rs>
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on his Oath Saith<lb></lb>
That near three o Clock this morning he heard the<lb></lb>
cry of stop Thief, he pursued and overlook the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n1154-2">John Short</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50885_geo558">King Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50885_geo559">Spitalfields</rs>
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, and on searching<lb></lb>
him this Examinant found a Chissel a knife and<lb></lb>
two Bags, and further saith that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n1154-3">John Short</rs>
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<lb></lb>
refused to tell where he lived.</p>
<p n="1155">This Examinant <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50885_n1155-1">Lydia Cockle</rs>
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on her Oath saith</p>
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