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