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<p n="108"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo101">Middlesex</rs>
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The Examination and Voluntary Confession of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n108-36">Hercules Skinner</rs>
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Taken before me one of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo102">Middlesex</rs>
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this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15056_date23">13th. day of April 1745</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15056_date23" type="date" value="17450413"></interp>
.</p>
<p n="109">This Examinant on his Oath freely and Voluntarily Saith<lb></lb>
That on Tuesday the 26th. day of March last about 8. o Clock at night<lb></lb>
he met with one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-1">James Thomas</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-2">John Hunt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-3">William Kirby</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-4">John Smith</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-5">William Norman</rs>
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opposite the End of Wide Gate<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo103">Alley in Bishop Gate Street</rs>
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, And then and there said James<lb></lb>
Thomas proposed to go a Theiveing that Night with this Examinant<lb></lb>
and the rest of them (namely) <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-6">John Hunt</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-7">William Kirby</rs>
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, John<lb></lb>
Smith and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-8">William Norman</rs>
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, which they all unanimously<lb></lb>
Agreed to: And thereupon this Examinant, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-9">James Thomas</rs>
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, and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-10">John Smith</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15056_n109-10" type="surname" value="Smith"></interp>
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ran a Cross Sd. <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo104">BppGate Street</rs>
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, And at the Corner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo105">Widegate<lb></lb>
Alley</rs>
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saw a Gentlewoman going upto a Door there with a<lb></lb>
Velvet Clock on; That whilst she knock't at the Door<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-11">James Thomas</rs>
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said to <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-12">John Smith</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15056_n109-12" type="surname" value="Smith"></interp>
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& This Examinant, (at the<lb></lb>
same time pointing at the Gentlewoman) thereis a Velvet Cloak,<lb></lb>
Let us go and Snatch it, & immediately this Examinant. James<lb></lb>
Thomas and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-13">John Smith</rs>
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went nearer up to Sd. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15056_occ59">Gentlewoman</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and as she was standing at the Door <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-14">John Smith</rs>
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went close<lb></lb>
up behind her and forcibly Snatch'd her Cloak from off her<lb></lb>
Shoulders, and ran away with towards Pettycoat Lane<lb></lb>
And then <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-15">James Thomas</rs>
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went towards <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15056_geo106">BppGate Street</rs>
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again<lb></lb>
to said Norman, Kirby & Hunt who were upon the Watch there,<lb></lb>
And soon afterwards they all gave this Examinant the Dropp & left<lb></lb>
him for that time, And says he saw neither of them any more<lb></lb>
that night. But says that about 3. o Clock in the Afternoon of<lb></lb>
the next day, said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-16">John Smith</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15056_n109-16" type="surname" value="Smith"></interp>
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came to his Lodgings in Pettycoat<lb></lb>
Square Pettycoat Lane, and Said to him this Examinant, What<lb></lb>
a Fool we all made of you last night, when we ran away with ye.<lb></lb>
Cloak & gave your no Share on't; And then & there told this Examint.<lb></lb>
that the sd. Cloack (meaning the Cloak they Snatch'd last night) was<lb></lb>
sold by <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-17">James Thomas</rs>
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's wife to one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n109-18">Susan Clarke</rs>
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for 18. Shills.<lb></lb>
and that he had his share of 12s. of the Money.</p>
<p n="110">Taken & Sworn the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15056_date24">13th. day of<lb></lb>
April 1745</rs>
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Before<lb></lb>
J Poulson</p>
<p n="111"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15056_n111-1">Hercules Skinner</rs>
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