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The Voluntary Examination of
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now present and which Examinant sold to
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London for fourteen Shillings that the
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did not ask this Examinant any Question how he came
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by it and Examinant did not ask any Price for it but told the said
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to give him what he could affordthat Examinant received
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which Examinant sold to the said
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That this
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gave the
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Examinant is a Judge of some of the Articles he so sold and that the
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gave him sixteen Shillings each Pounds
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Silk and Twist, which was worth twenty five Shillings each
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and two Shillings each Pound for Thread, which was worth
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Shillings and six PenceThat Examinant believes the said
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were stolenThat this Examinant was told by a young Man
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lived in
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that Annand was a proper Person to whom to
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sold Goods to the
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Amount of fifty Pounds to the said
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That the
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William Annand
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was about thirty ShillingsThat on Wednesday
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last this Examinant received from
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four Pounds Weight
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of Thread which he sold to the said
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for eight
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ShillingsThat this Examinant has sold at different times to the
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said Annand about ten Pounds Weight of Silk and ten Pounds Weight
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of Twist and several Gross of Buttons And lastly this Examinant
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saith that the Money found in his Box, was, excepting about five
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Pounds, all the Produce of the Goods stolen by Langford from his
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said Master and sold by this Examinant to the said William
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Annand: And this Examinant further saith that he received three Shillings
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and four Shillings each Gross for plated Buttons which were worth five
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at
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London the
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2d January 1788
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