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<p n="3882">Tavern kept by one Taylor. That at Lynn the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3882-1">Edward Payne</rs>
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confessed to this Informant that he Payne<lb></lb>
with Six others had entered a Ship in the Night in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2623">River Thames</rs>
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lying opposite <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2624">New Crane Stairs</rs>
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secured the<lb></lb>
Ship Hatchways an Scuttler, the Crew in their Hammock<lb></lb>
and the Male in his Cabbin, then fell to work and hoisted<lb></lb>
up the Dollars put them into a Boat and proceeded on Shore<lb></lb>
with them "Informant asked Payne how they cou'd manage<lb></lb>
such a heavy Weight, to which Payne replied "We have always<lb></lb>
People enough to assist when we get them so far" Inform-<lb></lb>
-ant then asked him to what Place the Dollars were carri-<lb></lb>
-ed, to which Questions Payne refused to give an Answer<lb></lb>
That the next day Informant put the same Question Again<lb></lb>
to said Payne, when said Payne replied this "Past went<lb></lb>
to Hounds ditch and past to Cock hill" That Informant<lb></lb>
then asked said Payne wether their was not a Box of<lb></lb>
Watches taken when said Payne replied "Yes there was<lb></lb>
that Seventeen came to my Share and damn the Jew<lb></lb>
he has not paid me for them" And that this Informant<lb></lb>
afterwards understood from the said Payne, that the<lb></lb>
said Jew's name was Wo<obscured></obscured>
Wolfe. Informant<lb></lb>
asked him what watches they were Payne replied "He<lb></lb>
did not know but that the Jew was to give him a<lb></lb>
Guinea a piece for them as they run" Informant<lb></lb>
then asked him how many Dollars came to his Share,<lb></lb>
to which Payne replied that "he could not tell, but that<lb></lb>
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