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<p n="1244">Particular day she does not recollect, says that just before<lb></lb>
this Alarm she saw the prisoner Mary Thompsons go out of<lb></lb>
Humphreys'<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1244-1">s House</rs>
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and return with a pint of Beer, and soon<lb></lb>
after come out a second time, without any thing on her head<lb></lb>
but a Common Cap, that almost directly after this she saw<lb></lb>
the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1244-2">Charles Thompson</rs>
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stand at the parlour door<lb></lb>
of Humphreys'<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1244-3">s House</rs>
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, and looking back into the room at<lb></lb>
times as if concerning with some body with in, and presently<lb></lb>
afterwards saw him come out with something in his Hand<lb></lb>
with a Silk Handkerchief thrown over its, and walk away<lb></lb>
very quickly, that almost immediately afterwards she saw<lb></lb>
this Informant Humphreys's come out and in great Confussion say that he<lb></lb>
was ruined, says that she saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1244-4">Charles Thompson</rs>
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no more until she came to give her Evidence here</p>
<p n="1245">And this Informant Simon Spicer for himself saith that<lb></lb>
on this day for't night the prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1245-1">Charles Thompson</rs>
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came<lb></lb>
to his House, and took an Apartment<del>of</del>
this Informant's<lb></lb>
House, and said he would being his Wife to see it on the<lb></lb>
Monday following, he said his name was Boughton, and that<lb></lb>
his <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15092_occ448">Father</rs>
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was an Attorney at Bath, that he had come to do<lb></lb>
his Father's Buiness in Town says that Thompson did not<lb></lb>
come on the Monday as he had promised but came with the<lb></lb>
other prisoner, whom he then called his Wife, about half an hour<lb></lb>
past nine O'Clock in the Evening of the day following, &<lb></lb>
discharging the Coach he came in, they both were invited to<lb></lb>
sup with this Informant who was then as Supper, which they<lb></lb>
accordingly both did, and on discoursing with sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1245-2">Charles Thompson</rs>
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he had great reason to believe him not to be the person he had<lb></lb>
before declared himself to he.<del>which gave him<obscured></obscured>
</del>
he therefore<lb></lb>
had suspicions of them both, and became cautious in Cooking after<lb></lb>
his house property, says that the next Morning both the said prisoner<lb></lb>
breakfasted with him, and he then told them said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n1245-3">Charles Thompson</rs>
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that It was<lb></lb>
necessary for every person in London who took ready<lb></lb>
furnished Lodgings to have some person of Credit to give them<lb></lb>
a Character, to which he replied with some indifference that to<lb></lb>
be sure it was necessary for some person to give 'em in a Character<lb></lb>
but yet seemed to made doing so, or going on with that<lb></lb>
discourse, but soon after in Conversation named several persons<lb></lb>
that he knew, and amongst the rest named a Mr. King as No 1 in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1241">the Temple</rs>
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, but not in such a Way as if he meant to have<lb></lb>
this Informant enquire of him, says that almost immediately<lb></lb>
afterwards this Informant went to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo1242">the Temple</rs>
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to enquire for<lb></lb>
King, but could find no such person, says that he saw Thompson<lb></lb>
again that day about five in the Afternoon, when he & his wife<lb></lb>
drank Tea with him, and being dissatisfied as not finding King<lb></lb>
thro' he did not inform Thompson<obscured></obscured>
that he had been after him) he<lb></lb>
began to<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
enquire of Thompson if he knew any body in order for Informant to referr<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
for<lb></lb>
his Character, he said he knew Doctor Harris in Drs Comons<lb></lb>
says that one of this Informants Journeyman having heard that then</p>
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