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<p n="34"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London Ss</note>
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The Voluntary Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n34-1">John<lb></lb>
Langford</rs>
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taken the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15100_date11">second day of January 1788</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
before me one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15100_occ8">Aldermen</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15100_geo24">City of London</rs>
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<p n="35">Who confesseth and saith that he was induced and persuaded by <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n35-8">Robert<lb></lb>
Kimber</rs>
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, now present, to rob the Warehouse of this Examinant's Master<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n35-1">John Welsford</rs>
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;that the first time he robbed his said master was about<lb></lb>
a Fortnight before the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n35-2">Robert Kimber</rs>
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who was also a Servant to<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n35-3">John Welsford</rs>
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, quitted his Service, when he stole a Price of<lb></lb>
Jean and delivered the same to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n35-4">Robert Kimber</rs>
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who sold the<lb></lb>
same and paid this Examinant seven Shillings for his Share of<lb></lb>
the ProduceThat this Examinant, by such Persuasion stole divers<lb></lb>
Quantities of Silk, Twist, Thread and plated Buttons, at several times<lb></lb>
all which he delivered to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n35-5">Robert Kimber</rs>
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who sold the same<lb></lb>
but never informed this Examinant to whom or where he sold the<lb></lb>
same That after the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n35-6">Robert Kimber</rs>
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left the Service of his said<lb></lb>
Master this Examinant used to meet him at a public House in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15100_geo25">Basing hall Street</rs>
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and another public House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15100_geo26">Aldermanbury</rs>
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where<lb></lb>
they divided the Produce of the Goods stolen by this Examinant as<lb></lb>
aforesaidThat this Examinant usually secreted the Goods stolen<lb></lb>
among the Wrappers in the lower Warehouse of his said Master's<lb></lb>
till Night, when he delivered them to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n35-7">Robert Kimber</rs>
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<p n="36">Taken<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15100_geo27">Guildhall</rs>
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London the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15100_date12">2d January 1788</rs>
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, before me}</p>
<p n="37"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n37-1">Brook Watson</rs>
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<p n="38">The Mark of<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15100_n38-1">John<del>Welsford</del>
Langford</rs>
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