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<p n="2793"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2102">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit.}</note>
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The Information and Voluntary Confession<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2793-1">Thomas Felbury</rs>
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Mariner Belonging to<lb></lb>
the good ship nymph whereof <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2793-2">Thomas Bishop</rs>
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<lb></lb>
is Commander now lying at Humitager Stairs<lb></lb>
in the saul County, Admitted an Evidence on<lb></lb>
his Majestys half against <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2793-3">Thomas Davis</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2793-4">John Cooper</rs>
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alias Sutherland and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2793-5">Robert<lb></lb>
Colvin</rs>
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for Felony taken this 24th. day<lb></lb>
of October. 1783.</p>
<p n="2794">Who being upon Oath saith that on their Outward<lb></lb>
Bound Passage to Ostend himself and the above three persons<lb></lb>
stole out of a punchron about one Gallon of Run which<lb></lb>
they drank That during the time they lay at Ost<obscured></obscured>
the<lb></lb>
same Parties stole two Gullons of Brandy which they<lb></lb>
also drank shall about a Week afterwards they look in the<lb></lb>
hold of the said ship about Eight Pounds of Tobocco<lb></lb>
which was taken on shore and sold for about Eight<lb></lb>
pence or nine pence perpound and the money divided believes<lb></lb>
the said Paties amounting almost to two shillings each<lb></lb>
person it that the night the Ship Arrived in the River<lb></lb>
and Anchored at Dukes shore Limehoues the same<lb></lb>
Parties took<obscured></obscured>
Paggs which had been filled at Ostend out. of cash which lay in the Hold of<lb></lb>
the ship containing about eight Gallons of Brandy which was<lb></lb>
carried on Shore by the above named <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2794-1">Thomas Davis</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45027_n2794-2">Thomas Hart</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45027_occ796">Waterman</rs>
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who attends the Ship<lb></lb>
and sold at her for six or seven shillings per Gallon as<lb></lb>
Davis an<obscured></obscured>
Out Beard Said Ship paid Informant<lb></lb>
and Cooper and Colvin some when about Half a Guinea each<lb></lb>
Lesthy saith that on Thursday night last to the best<lb></lb>
of her knowledge and belief this Informant and the above-<lb></lb>
named three persons Spiled two or three Parks of Brandy<lb></lb>
which lay on the For Part of the Ship and drew off<lb></lb>
about three Gallons from each cash which was taken on<lb></lb>
Thore in Bladdery and Bottles, that he himself took<lb></lb>
Three Guarbs of the same in a Bladdir to the house of Mr.<lb></lb>
Tale a Pilot in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2103">Virginia Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45027_geo2104">Ratcliff Highway</rs>
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, which he</p>
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