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The Examination of Richard
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Newton taken upon Oath the
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2nd. Day of March 1786
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Saith that he was born in the
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in the County of Hereford and brought up a Farmer and
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, That he this Examinant left the Country about Two
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or three Years ago, and when he came to Town he went to
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live with one Beadle in Monkwell Street a Porter at Goldsmiths
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Hall. That the first Place he this Examinant entered as a
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was with Mr. Heath and had a Character from the
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said Beadle, That after living with the said Heath three
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Months he went to Messieurs Tanfield and Company in
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Foster Lane Ironmongers with whom he this Examinant
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lived one Year and a half and had a Character from the
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said Heath, That he this Examinant soon afterwards went
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to Mr. Randall in
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& Trunk-maker
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and Bear Merchant with whom he lived one Month
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That he this Examinant after that event to lodge at the
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Horse Shoe and had two Rooms there, and was out of
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Place a Quarter of Alpar. That he this Examinant lived
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with Mr. Yeates in
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Milk Street
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a Manchester Warehouse-
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-man and that the said Mr. Yeates had this Examinant
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Character of Messrs. Barker and Clare Grocers at the Top of
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. That he this Examinant lived a Quarter of a
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year with a Master
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Shoemaker
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in
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so
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That he this Examinant lodged about about Two Months
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at No. 3 Manwell Street then went unto the Country when
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he this Examinant stayed about Two Months and that
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returned to his last mentioned Lodgings. That he this
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Examinant has known Mr. Gould for the Space of Twelve
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Months last past and had seen the said Gould drinking
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at the Horse Shoe aforesaid and has seen his fellow Servant
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