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<p n="346"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx ss</note>
<lb></lb>
The free and Voluntary Confession and<lb></lb>
Examination of John Boal of the hamlet<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45003_geo91">Poplar and Blackwall</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45003_geo92">Parish of<lb></lb>
Stepney</rs>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45003_geo93">Midd'x</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45003_occ50">Carpenter</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken before me one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45003_occ51">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45003_date15">17th.<lb></lb>
day of March 1758</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="347">This Examinant John Boal, voluntarily confesseth and<lb></lb>
sayth that he has several times feloniously Stole from out<lb></lb>
of the Stowhouse of Messrs. John and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n347-1">Robert Batson</rs>
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<interp inst="LMOBPS45003_n347-1" type="surname" value="Batson"></interp>
<interp inst="LMOBPS45003_n347-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
of the<lb></lb>
hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45003_geo94">Poplar and Blackwall</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45003_geo95">Parish of Stepney</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the County of Midd'x Shipbuilders divers quantitys of Iron<lb></lb>
consisting of Bolts<obscured></obscured>
the Property of Messrs. John<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n347-2">Robert Batson</rs>
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and that he sold the same to one<lb></lb>
Barber, a Smith, who lives in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45003_geo96">Back Lane</rs>
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in the Parish of Saint<lb></lb>
George Midd'x, always at the rate of One Penny a Pound, the<lb></lb>
it was greatly M<obscured></obscured>
of the real Price of that Commodity. and that<lb></lb>
he the said Barber bought and received the same, wall<lb></lb>
Knowing the same to be feloniously, stolen</p>
<p n="348">Taken the day and year aforesaid<lb></lb>
Before Me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n348-1">Walter Berry</rs>
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}</p>
<p n="349">The mark of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45003_n349-1">John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Beal</rs>
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