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to Newgate he freely confessed the whole Fact acknowleged the
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Name
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Subscribed to the Information to be of his own
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Hand Writing & desired Favour in regard he had been drawn in by Mr.
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Nicholls who had an Influence over him of such a Nature that it
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was not safe for him to refuse her any thing, the Justices Clerk
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would have taken his Confession down in Writing & got Bygrave to
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have signed it but he refusing to his Hand to any thing
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nothing was reduced to writing
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Mr. Paterson by his affidt: Says that the Prosecution agt. the Deft is carried on
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by order of the Lord Mayor of Aldermen & the tryall putt off at the Defts request
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Richd Beale
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by his affidt: Says that upon Inquiry after the Defts Bail he is
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informed That Kelly is not known by the Neighbours that his house is very little
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frequented & little else but lyder & Geneva sold there & that he lately came out of
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That Cattrall is not known by any of the Neighbours Except one who Informed
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him that Cattralls wife took the house when he was in prison & that he lately come from
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That Page is not known by any of his Neighbours Except an old
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who being asked who lived in such a house Said One Page who lately kept a
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& now Pretends to be a
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Cattrall's & Page's houses are reputed houses of bad Characters by their neighbours
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Mr. Robinson by his affidt: Swears to the Defts Confession of the Fact before the
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Sitting Justice at
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