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This Informant on his Oath further saith, that about three Weeks ago John
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to carry a boat Load of Goods to
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a Ship which lay at
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that in his Passage he took this Informant
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and Danish Cutts on Board when the said Joyner broke open a Trunk which
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was on Board the Boat and took out ten parcels and then fastned the said
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Trunk again which Parcels contain'd Stockings, that this Informant and
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the said Cutts get on Shore with the Stockings and went to the Duke of
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Cumberlands
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head and met one
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John Shirley
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there who lives in or near
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Barnaby Street
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who treated with them for the said Stockings but did not make an absolute
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agreement then that the next day this informant the said Joyner & Cutts
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met the said Shirley again at the said House when he bought them and paid
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this Informant Four Pounds and upwards which was equally divided between
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them except what was Spent, that this Informant told the said Shirley in
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what manner the said Stockings were Stolen
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This Informant on his Oath further saith that about three Months ago he was employd
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by
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Thomas Cheney
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to carry several Parcels of Goods on Board a Ship which
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lay at the
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that he took one
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Edward Currey
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on Board in the Passage, that a
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Limehouse holl the said Curry broke open a Trunk that was in the Boat and took
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out seven or eight Parcels and fastned up the Trunk again that the said parcels Containd
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Metal Buttons for Mens Cloathes and a parcel of Silk that the said Currey told this
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Informant that he would carry the said Parcels to the said
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Abraham Robins
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House, that the next day this Informant and said Currey went together to
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the said Robins at his House in
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the Minories
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when the said Robins went with
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them to a House in
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when the said Robins fetch'd two Persons
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whose Names this Informant does not know, which said two Persons bought the
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said Parcels of the said Robins whom the said Currey and this Informant
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had untrusted to sell the Goods for them that one of the said Persons
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paid this Informant Six Guineas and the other Person paid Curry a Moydore
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being the Money that Robins said he had agreed with the said two Persons
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to pay for the said Goods which money this Informant and said Currey
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divided equally between them
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Taken and Sworn at the
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iansion House London this
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Day and Year first within written before, Me one of his
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Majesty Justices of the Peace for the said City & Liberties}
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John Ford
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Tho Rawlinson
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