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last, two pair of linen sheets, value 4 s. one cloth cloak, value 6 s. one coat, value 2 s. one great coat, value 6 s. two linen bed curtains, value 2 s. </rs>
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<p>The witnesses examined apart at the request of the prisoner.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I caught the prisoner in my room, I seized him by the collar, he gave me a violent push in my stomach, and pushed me on one side and run out, but stumbled over the step; I cried out stop thief! and he was stopped in about a hundred yards, and I saw the prisoner drop the things mentioned in the indictment, and other things.</p>
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assisted in seizing the prisoner, and was sure to the man.</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I was coming down Long-Acre, it was very dark, and a man run by me, and they came and took me.</p>
<p>Prosecutor. The prisoner was never out of my sight.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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Transported for seven years </rs>
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<p>Court to Prisoner. Your own conscience will tell you what I am informed of, that you have been here three times before.</p>
<p>Prisoner. I never was, my Lord.</p>
<p>Court. You have been in imprisonment and have broke prison, therefore make a particular memorandum, that it may be reported specially to the King, that he may be transported seven years to the coast of Africa, among the Blacks.</p>
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