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, condemn'd for privately stealing 180 Poundweight of Inkle, value 20 l. from
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Mr Stafford Briscoe
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, on the
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. He said, he was 24 years of age, born in the
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: That he had learnt Surgery, and serv'd on board the Newark and the Albemarle, as an
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, and was about 20 Months in Spain, where he had the Post of an Ensign in the Lord Baltimore's Regiment, under the late Reign: That his Parents, who were Persons of Honesty and Reputation, had given him good Education, but he had not answer'd it, and was now very much griev'd for the Miscarriages of his past Life, which he pray'd GOD to forgive him. But as to the Crime he was condemn'd for, I found it difficult to bring him to a plain Confession of it.
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James Blunt
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, (which last he said was his right Name) condemn'd for breaking open the House of Mrs.
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Mary Gostin
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, and taking thence 16 Gold-Rings, a Gold Necklace, a Coral, 4 SilverThimbles, several other Goods of value, and 15 l. in Money, on the
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. He said, he was 26 Years of age, born in
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: That he serv'd a
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in that Country till about 5 Years since, at which time he came into England, and got some
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, where he did (at times) serve on board several Men of War and Merchantmen. He would not confess his Guilt of the Fact he was to suffer for, and said, he never did any such thing in his Life: But I told him he was much mistaken, for I knew he had received Sentence of Death before; which he could not but acknowledge when I particularly shew'd him how he was try'd and condemn'd at the Old-Baily in October 1714, for breaking the House of Mrs.
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, and stealing thence a Silver-Coral, and other Goods of value, on the
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, and was then Repriev'd, and afterwards Pardon'd, which Pardon he pleaded in that Court on the
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. I found him very ignorant and stupid, and with much difficulty brought him to a Sense of his Sins, (aggravated by his presumptuous Abuse of Mercy) and to that kind of Repentance which (as I shew'd him) was only ailable to Salvation.
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Daniel Blunt
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, (the former being his right Name) condemn'd for picking Mr.
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. He said, he was 27 Years of age, born in
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, viz. Five in the Royal Navy, on board the Greenwich, the Boyne, the Experiment, Rochester, and two or three Men of War besides; and the other Five Years in Merchantmen: That he was not guilty of this Fact, but seeing that Snuffbox on the Ground, he took it up and put it into his own Pocket: and, That he never robb'd any Person of any thing in his Life, only his own Mother, when he was a Boy: But I shew'd him he did not speak the Truth in that, for I knew he had before this, viz. in September 1714, been convicted of a Felony for stealing an Handkerchief, and
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