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The Examination and Voluntary Confession of
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This Examinant on his Oath freely and Voluntarily Saith
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That on Tuesday the 26th. day of March last about 8. o Clock at night
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opposite the End of Wide Gate
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Thomas proposed to go a Theiveing that Night with this Examinant
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and the rest of them (namely)
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, John
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Smith and
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, which they all unanimously
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Agreed to: And thereupon this Examinant,
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ran a Cross Sd.
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saw a Gentlewoman going upto a Door there with a
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Velvet Clock on; That whilst she knock't at the Door
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said to
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& This Examinant, (at the
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same time pointing at the Gentlewoman) thereis a Velvet Cloak,
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Let us go and Snatch it, & immediately this Examinant. James
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Thomas and
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and as she was standing at the Door
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John Smith
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went close
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up behind her and forcibly Snatch'd her Cloak from off her
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Shoulders, and ran away with towards Pettycoat Lane
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And then
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again
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to said Norman, Kirby & Hunt who were upon the Watch there,
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And soon afterwards they all gave this Examinant the Dropp & left
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him for that time, And says he saw neither of them any more
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that night. But says that about 3. o Clock in the Afternoon of
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the next day, said
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came to his Lodgings in Pettycoat
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Square Pettycoat Lane, and Said to him this Examinant, What
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a Fool we all made of you last night, when we ran away with ye.
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Cloak & gave your no Share on't; And then & there told this Examint.
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that the sd. Cloack (meaning the Cloak they Snatch'd last night) was
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sold by
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's wife to one
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Susan Clarke
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for 18. Shills.
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and that he had his share of 12s. of the Money.
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Taken & Sworn the
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13th. day of
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April 1745
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Before
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J Poulson
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