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The Voluntary Examination of
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Who confesseth and saith that he was induced and persuaded by
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, now present, to rob the Warehouse of this Examinant's Master
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;that the first time he robbed his said master was about
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a Fortnight before the said
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, quitted his Service, when he stole a Price of
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Jean and delivered the same to the said
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who sold the
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same and paid this Examinant seven Shillings for his Share of
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the ProduceThat this Examinant, by such Persuasion stole divers
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Quantities of Silk, Twist, Thread and plated Buttons, at several times
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who sold the same
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left the Service of his said
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Master this Examinant used to meet him at a public House in
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where
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they divided the Produce of the Goods stolen by this Examinant as
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aforesaidThat this Examinant usually secreted the Goods stolen
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among the Wrappers in the lower Warehouse of his said Master's
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till Night, when he delivered them to the said
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London the
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2d January 1788
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