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, where most of his Friends and Relations liv'd, and there was bound
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: That after he had serv'd with him about Two Years he left him, and came up to
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: That some time after this, he got into
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, and in that capacity serv'd the Crown about Five Years, on board two Men of War, viz. the Guernsey and Triumph, alternately. He would not plainly own his Guilt of the Facts he was condemn'd for, but only said, that he knew something, and might (if he would) have prevented the commission of them. When I charg'd him with being an old Offender, he confess'd he had been so; and, that he had suffer'd the Law for it, being once burnt in the Hand for a Felony, and at another time whipt.
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Roger Moor
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, condemn'd for Breaking the House of
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; and stealing thence two Coppers and an Alembick, on the
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. He said, he was about 20 years of age, born - he could not tell where; for he knew nothing of his Parents, nor how he was first brought up; but only, that an Old Woman living in
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took care of him, as her own, when he was but a Child: That after he had receivd some Education, and was become capable of Business, he apply'd himself to the Pedlars Trade,
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, by which he could get an honest Livelihood; and so did, till the Evidence against him induced him to do ill things, and particularly the Fact he now stood condemn'd for; which he said was his first, and would be his last, were he to live never so long in this World. He declar'd he was brought up, and desir'd to die, in the
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; yet I found he understood very little of it, or any other; nor indeed did he well understand what he said, when he protested to me, he never was concern'd in an ill thing before October last; for, soon after that Protestation, he own'd he had committed several small Robberies (as he call'd 'em) but would not particularly tell what they were.
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(which last, he said, was his right Name) condemn'd for breaking the House of Mrs.
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, and stealing thence 34 pair of Men's Gloves, and other Millenery-Ware, amounting to a considerable value, on the
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. He said, he was 30 years of age, born at
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, whom he was not bound to, nor staid long with, but soon left him and
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; where he serv'd several Years off and on, in diverse Men of War. He at first deny'd the Fact he was condemn'd for, saying, That he never did it, nor was in the least concern'd in it, neither had done any thing of that nature in his whole Life: But upon my telling him, That I believ'd him not, for I knew him to be an old Offender, who once (viz. the
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; and, that I was afraid he had done many ill things since; he own'd, it was true, and wish'd now he had been wiser, and (as I then advis'd him) had improv'd that Mercy better.
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