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<p n="1104"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1126">Middlesex</rs>
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. to wit</note>
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The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1104-1">James Foothead</rs>
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charged with felony by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1104-2">Francis Plowden</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1104-3">William<lb></lb>
Plowden</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1127">Saint Giles in the Fields</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the C ounty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1128">Middlesex</rs>
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; and taken before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1104-4">William Addington</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ464">Esqr</rs>
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<lb></lb>
one of his MAJESTY'S <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ465">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1129">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45030_date180">7th Day of August<lb></lb>
17 86.</rs>
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<p n="1105"> Who <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
saith that about 9 o'Clock on Sunday Evening the 30th. of<lb></lb>
July last in going from Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1105-1">Francis Plowden</rs>
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's House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1130">Great Queen Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at which time the Street Door was fastened by him, after he came out he turned<lb></lb>
on the right hand side intending to go up <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1131">little Queen Street</rs>
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. that he perceived a<lb></lb>
Man or Boy with a large Parcel on his Back, which parcel appeared to be black<lb></lb>
that Examinant came up to said Person, and touched him on the Shoulder or Ann<lb></lb>
and asked him if he made a practice of carrying Bundles on a Sunday; that said<lb></lb>
Man made no Reply but immediately throw down his said Parcel and Ran away<lb></lb>
towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1132">Lincolns Inn Fields</rs>
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, leaving this Examinant in possession of said Parcel,<lb></lb>
that Examinant stood some time in astonishment, but said Man not returning, he<lb></lb>
took said Parcel up, which he found to be a Green Baize Bag that he carried the<lb></lb>
said Bag with its contents to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1105-2">John Foothead</rs>
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his Cousin a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45030_occ466">Bricklayer</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1133">Queen Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1134">Bloomsbury</rs>
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, whom he told that it was his (this Examinants) own Cloaths and desired<lb></lb>
him to take care of it and that he should call in the morning and then after some conversation<lb></lb>
and Drinking together, he left said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1105-3">John Foothead</rs>
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that he then returned to said Mr. Plowden<lb></lb>
that his Brother <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1105-4">Charles Foothead</rs>
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let him in and they went to Bed, that at this time it<lb></lb>
which was about 12 o'Clock; that during the time Examinant was undressing himself said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1105-5">Charles Foothead</rs>
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told him that Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1105-6">William Plowden</rs>
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had lost all his Cloaths that<lb></lb>
Examinant expressed a Surprize at it. but did not mention anything relating to<lb></lb>
his having picked up the parcel, that about 11 o'Clock the next morning he went to<lb></lb>
his said Cousins <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1105-7">John Foothead</rs>
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, who was at home, but not know that said bundle<lb></lb>
was not Examinant Own property, that he then Examined the said Parcel (no<lb></lb>
person being present at that time) and found it to contain a Quantity of Linen and<lb></lb>
and wearing apparel now produced, that on Monday last<lb></lb>
he took said Parcel from his said Cousins to Mr. Skates's a<lb></lb>
Chandler shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1135">Tottenham Court Road</rs>
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, at which time it was<lb></lb>
agreed upon between him and his Cousin to Lodge there together, that he this Examinant<lb></lb>
on Friday morning last cut Off the Ends of several Stocks, and otherwise defaced and<lb></lb>
cut off the Marks of some of the Shirts, Examinant also acknowledges that he thought<lb></lb>
that they were Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45030_n1105-8">William Plowden</rs>
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's Property, that about one or two o'Clock for<lb></lb>
said Friday last he went to Mr. Dobree's Pawnbroker in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45030_geo1136">Oxford Street</rs>
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where he</p>
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