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<p n="222"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Surr ss</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examinacon, and Confession of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15036_n222-1">Thomas Higgs</rs>
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duly<lb></lb>
taken before me Saith</p>
<p n="223">That on Wednesday Morning last abt. teh Hour of Two a Clock he this<lb></lb>
Examinant together with <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15036_n223-1">John Gunn</rs>
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who<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
s at a Smiths Shop<lb></lb>
near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15036_geo96">Fleet Ditch</rs>
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Londonagreed to goe to a Wharf at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15036_geo97">Old Swan</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Londonin Order to Steal Iron & accordingly they went and took<lb></lb>
Two Barrs weighing abt. Forty pound and then they went to the next<lb></lb>
Wharf called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15036_geo98">Dyers Wharf</rs>
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and tooke Five Barrs of Iron from thence<lb></lb>
weighing about a Hundred Wight which Iron they intended to carry<lb></lb>
to the said Gunnis House at Fleet Ditch aforesd. but was surprised by<lb></lb>
the Watchman belonging to the next Wharf wch. oblidged them to<lb></lb>
leave<del>the sd.</del>
part under the Shore & part in this Examinants wherry<lb></lb>
and they made their Escape. And this examinant further saith<lb></lb>
that he and the said Gunn have frequently Stolen Iron from<lb></lb>
the said Wharfs and the sd. Gunn gave this Examinant his share and<lb></lb>
gott the sd. Iron<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
workt up And this Examinant further<lb></lb>
Saith that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15036_n223-3">John Gander</rs>
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& the have frequently been concerned<lb></lb>
in Stealing Iron from the sd. Wharfe for the Space of Three or<lb></lb>
Four years last and the sd. Gander pd. this Examinant his Share<lb></lb>
and he work't the sd. Iron up himself being a Smith And further<lb></lb>
this Examinant<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
saith that he this Examinant and the sd.<lb></lb>
Gander have sold sevall parcells of the sd. Iron to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15036_n223-4">Wm. Bryley</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15036_geo99">Bankside</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15036_geo100">Southwark</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15036_occ78">Smith</rs>
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he well knowing the same to be by<lb></lb>
them Stolen</p>
<p n="224">Capt. <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15036_date45">Decimo. Tertio<lb></lb>
die May: 1725</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Coram me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15036_n224-1">John Lade</rs>
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</p>
<p n="225">The mark of<lb></lb>
Thomas<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Higgs</p>
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