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<p n="662"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London to wit</note>
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The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n662-1">John Page</rs>
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, apprehended<lb></lb>
by <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n662-2">Thomas Gates</rs>
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, City Marshal, and brough before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n662-3">James Townsend</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ287">Esquire</rs>
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, one of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n662-4">his Majesty</rs>
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's Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace for the said City Who saith, that he<lb></lb>
hath been informed, and he verily believes the same to<lb></lb>
be true, that he was born at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo611">Wotton</rs>
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, near Basingstoke<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo612">Hampshire</rs>
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, and that he is the Son of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n662-5">Thomas Page</rs>
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<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ288">Carpenter</rs>
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at WootonSays, that he was bound an<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ289">Apprentice</rs>
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for seven Years, to his Father, and his<lb></lb>
time expired about nine Months agoThat he worked<lb></lb>
with Mr Jay a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ290">Carpenter</rs>
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at Basingstoke about six<lb></lb>
Weeks, and then he came to London to get Work<lb></lb>
Says, that he don't chuse to tell where he has lodged<lb></lb>
during the time he has been in Townthat he has<lb></lb>
not worked any where for the six Months he has<lb></lb>
been in LondonSays, that he brought about twelve<lb></lb>
Giuneas with him to Town, and the First Night he<lb></lb>
Lay at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo613">the Bull and Gate in Holborn</rs>
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Says, that<lb></lb>
he was drinking on Saturday Morning at a Publick<lb></lb>
House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo614">Petticoat Lane</rs>
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, And a Woman, who was a<lb></lb>
Stranger to Examinant, introduced him to the House<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo615">Harrow Alley</rs>
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, where he was apprehended, to<lb></lb>
have some Break fastSays, he never was before in<lb></lb>
the House, and that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n662-6">William Stuart</rs>
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, taken with him<lb></lb>
is a Stranger to him, and he never remember to<lb></lb>
have seen him before Saturday lastSays, that<lb></lb>
he has had about half a dozen Lodgings in London,<lb></lb>
and don't chuse to tell any one of them.</p>
<p n="663">Taken at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo616">Guild hall</rs>
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London<lb></lb>
the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15093_date88">4th Day of November 1782</rs>
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<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="664"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n664-1">John Paye</rs>
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</p>
<p n="665"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n665-1">James Townsend</rs>
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