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<p n="2639"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2546">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2639-1">Henry Baker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
charged with Felony taken before me<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date437">23d day of October 1787</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="2640">Who Says that he is thirty five Years of Age and was born<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2547">Chipping Canden</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2548">Gloucestershire</rs>
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that he served three<lb></lb>
Year <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ907">Apprenticeship</rs>
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to a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ908">Butcher</rs>
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and has followed that<lb></lb>
business at times ever since That he now lives with Mr Yallowley<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ909">Cowkeeper</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2549">Tottenham Court Road</rs>
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That on Monday the<lb></lb>
first of October Instant, he Thatched a Bean Stack at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2550">Dagenham</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for Mr Allowley, that on the Tuesday and Wednesday he got<lb></lb>
Drunk at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2551">Rose and Crown</rs>
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, That on Wednesday<del> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2640-2">Thomas Lane</rs>
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</del>
one James<lb></lb>
<del>now present</del>
came to him at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2552">Rose and Crown</rs>
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and asked him if<lb></lb>
he could give him a Jobb, Examinant asked him what he could do<lb></lb>
he replied Thrash, Examinant told him he would get him a Jobb<lb></lb>
That Examinant and said<del>Lane</del>
James went to the Barn, that when<lb></lb>
they came there said<del>Lane</del>
James said this Examinant, if you knew<lb></lb>
my mind you need not work, Examinant ask'd said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
James why<lb></lb>
he need not work, said<del>Lane</del>
James Replied I have got two silver Tankards<lb></lb>
hid under a Bridge Examinant asked him how they came there<lb></lb>
said<del>Lane</del>
James Replied two Young Men that<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
were in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2553">Chelmsford Gaol</rs>
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<lb></lb>
had Stolen them from a Gentlemans House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2554">Suffolk</rs>
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or <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2555">Norfolk</rs>
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<lb></lb>
That they went and took them that said<del>Lane</del>
James then Knocked the<lb></lb>
Tops<del>handles</del>
Off, and said I'll take the Tops and you the bottoms and<lb></lb>
will sell them, That he this Examinant Informed said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
James that he had got the Tankard and did not know what to do with it<lb></lb>
when he advised him to apply to a Pawn broker at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2556">Hampstead</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to say he found them in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo2557">Halloway fields</rs>
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that by that direction<lb></lb>
he went to the shop of said Mr. Gilks now Present</p>
<p n="2641">Taken before me the<lb></lb>
day an Year aforesaid}<lb></lb>
Addington</p>
<p n="2642">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n2642-52">Henry<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Bcher</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="2643">Witness Danl<obscured></obscured>
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