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<p n="402">Harts concerning <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65514_n402-1">Willm. Smith</rs>
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's confinement in Tothillfield<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65514_geo132">Bridewell</rs>
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:-I happened to call at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65514_geo133">Rose and Crown Westminster</rs>
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about eight weeks ago where I had a pint of Porter, there were<lb></lb>
four or five Persons in the house testing for liquor as I was going<lb></lb>
out of the Top- room I happined to Kick a Stick with my foot,<lb></lb>
which I took up; not Seeing what Sort of Hick it was, and<lb></lb>
the room being almost dark the Candle being Surrounded<obscured></obscured>
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those that were testing up and placed near the door,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
deprived<lb></lb>
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me of determining the quality of the Stick, I went from thence<lb></lb>
to the two Swans in Tothill Street, where I intended to lodge<lb></lb>
that night; two Serjeants came in one, said he had last his cane; Ire flyed,<lb></lb>
that I had picked-up a Cane, which I deposited in my Lond-<lb></lb>
lady's hand for the purpose to be deliver it to any that could<lb></lb>
prove it to be their property. I declare I did not know it be a<lb></lb>
cane till I came to tie it with candle-light at the two Swans</p>
<p n="403">Next morning I was going to my home at Heekney<lb></lb>
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I should take it as Singular<obscured></obscured>
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Be so Obliging if Occation Requires to<obscured></obscured>
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Mr Thos behalf a I have no friend to<obscured></obscured>
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Character I shall in duty bound Ever Pray</p>
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