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