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The Examination of
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Nicholas Parker
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taken before
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me this
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thirteenth day of May 1715
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This Examt. sayeth that on ye. 30th. day of April last having
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occasion to goe on board the Parker Frigott lying at Stone
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Scain near Ratcliff sent one Rice to the
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Swan Tavern
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in Cornhill
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to enquire for Mr.
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Henry Lister
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and to know
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whether he would goe with this Examt. to
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Gravesend
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the
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next day as was agreed on between the said Lister & this
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Examt. and to tent the said Lister that this Examt. was gone
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on board the said Parker Grigor And sayeth that about 7 or
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8 of the clerk that afternoon returning in a boat the said
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Rice Lister &
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Edward Newton
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then in a Boat on ye. Thames
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met this Examt. and kept company with this Examts. boat
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till they and this Examt. all pid on Shoat near
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Billingsgate
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from whence they & this Examt. went to the
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Dog Tavern
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and for severall hours they all sate in the
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Kitchen of ye. sd. Tavern And saith that he did not know
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or heard that the said Newton and any mony or any
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bagg till sometime after this Examt. was brought before
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the Ld. Mayor and by him discharged when the sd. Rice
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& this Examt. were charged with picking the said Newtons
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pocket the said Rice did own that when he & the sd. Newton
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were at the Swan Tavern the said Rice saw the said
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Newton change a Pistale which he took out of a Bagg
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But this Examt. saith that he never saw any of the said
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Newtons mony or his bagg Nor did this Examt. know how ye.
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said Rice came by the said Newtons porket Book but
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did See a pocket book in his hand And saith that he never
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said any thing of the said Newtons being ye. Son of a
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Mathematician this Examt. knowing him to be otherwise
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And that when the said Newton charged this Examt. as
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aforesaid he unbutten'd his Coate & constroate & offered
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himself to be searched
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Jur coram
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T Parker
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Nichos. Parker
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