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<p n="41">Here also he confess'd the Fact he was to suffer for, which before he had very strongly deny'd; and now said, That if he could, he would be very glad to help the Persons to their Goods, whom he had wrong'd; but all he was now able to do, was to beg GOD's Pardon and theirs, as he did, praying GOD to bless them, and make up their Losses.</p>
<p n="42">4. <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n42-3">Gregory King</rs>
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, condemn'd for a Burglary committed by him and <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n42-1">Samuel Freeman</rs>
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, in the House of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n42-2">William Chapman</rs>
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(as hereafter mention'd) on the <rs type="date" id="OA17170626_date14">5th of May last</rs>
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. He said, he was about 37 Years of age, born in the <rs type="placeName" id="OA17170626_geo11">Parish of St. Andrew Holborn</rs>
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: That his Father, who was a <rs type="occupation" id="OA17170626_occ10">Butcher</rs>
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, employ'd him in his Occupation; but he did not follow it so close as not to carry on another Trade, which was more private, and altogether unlawful; and that was Thieving and Robbing, which he had for some Years past (through the instigation of wicked People that corrupted him) been engag'd in, and more than once suffer'd for. But as for Particulars, and a plainer Account of himself and his wicked Facts, he desir'd to be excus'd from satisfying the World therein, though many Arguments were us'd to perswade him to clear his Conscience in those Matters, by Confession and Repentance, and repairing (so far as he could) the Injuries he had done his Neighbour.</p>
<p n="43">5. <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n43-1">Samuel Freeman</rs>
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, alias <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n43-2">John Deane</rs>
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, alias <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n43-6">Scull Deane</rs>
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, alias <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n43-7">Ralph Harwood</rs>
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, who said (but I believe he told a Lie) that his right Name was <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n43-3">Samuel Freeman</rs>
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, condemn'd for a Burglary by him committed, with the above-mention'd <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n43-8">Gregory King</rs>
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, in the House of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n43-4">William Chapman</rs>
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, stealing thence a Cabinet with a Silver Lock, and other Goods, on the <rs type="date" id="OA17170626_date15">5th day of May last</rs>
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. He said, he was 21 Years old, born in the <rs type="placeName" id="OA17170626_geo12">Parish of St. Dunstan Stepney</rs>
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: That from the Age of Seven he had serv'd at Sea, being sometimes a <rs type="occupation" id="OA17170626_occ11">Cabin-Boy</rs>
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, sometimes a <rs type="occupation" id="OA17170626_occ12">Captain's Servant</rs>
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, and at other times a <rs type="occupation" id="OA17170626_occ13">Sailor</rs>
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: That his Service for the most part was on board Men of War. He at first obstinately deny'd the Fact he was condemn'd for, and would fain have pass'd for a Person that had never offended the Law: But when I told him that I knew him to be an old-Offender, who had receiv'd Sentence of Death before this time for stealing three Silver Candlesticks and a Silver Ladle, value 7 l. out of the House of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n43-5">Charles Hamilton</rs>
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, on the <rs type="date" id="OA17170626_date16">4th of November 1713</rs>
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; and that he had obtain'd a Transport-Pardon, which he pleaded at the Old-baily on <rs type="date" id="OA17170626_date17">Saturday the 6th of August 1715</rs>
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, and that all this and more I remember'd of him; then he found it to no purpose for him to deny it any longer: And so he confess'd both that former Fact and this, but was loath to discover or own any thing further.</p>
<p n="44">6. <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n44-1">Henry Sewell</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n44-2">alias Sweet</rs>
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, alias Old Harry (who said <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n44-5">Henry Suet</rs>
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was his right Name) Condemn'd for two Burglaries, viz. first, for breaking the House of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n44-3">William Towers</rs>
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, and stealing thence four dozen Pair of Yarn-Stockings, and twelve Pair of Socks, on the <rs type="date" id="OA17170626_date18">29th of October 1714</rs>
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: And secondly, for a like Fact by him committed in the House of Mrs. <rs type="persName" id="OA17170626_n44-4">Morgan Shaw</rs>
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, out of which he took some Linnen, to the value of 3 l. on the <rs type="date" id="OA17170626_date19">20th of August 1715</rs>
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. He said, he was 23 Years of age, born at <rs type="placeName" id="OA17170626_geo13"> <rs type="placeName" id="OA17170626_geo14">Farham</rs>
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in Hampshire</rs>
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: That, when young, his Friends brought him up to <rs type="placeName" id="OA17170626_geo15">London</rs>
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, and bound him <rs type="occupation" id="OA17170626_occ14">Apprentice to a Sawyer</rs>
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there: That after he had serv'd about 6 Years of his time, his Master dying, he chose rather to <rs type="occupation" id="OA17170626_occ15">go to Sea</rs>
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, than to be turn'd over to another of his late Master's Occupation: That he had for these 5 Years past been (mostly) employ'd in the Merchants Service at Sea, and gone several small Voyages, during which time he liv'd an honest Life; but when he wanted Business he took the Liberty of committing those Facts which are not allowable; and therefore was often brought to Justice, and (for want of sufficient Evidence) always acquitted, except once, when he was convicted of a small Felony, and upon that order'd to be whipt: Yet this</p>
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