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<p n="427"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination and Voluntary Confession<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n427-1">John Burk</rs>
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of the Hamlet of Poplar in the<lb></lb>
said County Taken before me <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n427-2">Walter Berry</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50385_occ136">Esqr</rs>
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. one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50385_occ137">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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for the said County this first Day of<lb></lb>
March in the year of our Lord 1717.</p>
<p n="428">This Examinant Cofesseth and Saith that this Day<lb></lb>
about one o'Clock he was at work in the white Lead<lb></lb>
house at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50385_geo277">Lime house</rs>
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hole in the said County along wille<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n428-1">William Divericks</rs>
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And he this Examinant having see<obscured></obscured>
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the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n428-2">William Divericks</rs>
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coat lying by him went<lb></lb>
and Searched the Pockets of the same and found in one<lb></lb>
of them a Tin Box and having Opened it he this<lb></lb>
Examinant found therein two half Guineas Which he<lb></lb>
put in his own pocket And sometime after the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n428-3">William Divericks</rs>
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having Miss the said Box & Money<lb></lb>
he<del>along with</del>
Complained to the Clerk of the Works who<lb></lb>
ordering a General Seach to be made for the same Among<lb></lb>
the Labourers the said Box and Two half Guineas was<lb></lb>
found in the Posession of him this Examinant And<lb></lb>
farther Saith not</p>
<p n="429">Taken and acknowleged the Day<lb></lb>
and year aforesaid Before me</p>
<p n="430"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n430-1">Walter Berry</rs>
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</p>
<p n="431"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50385_n431-1">John Burk</rs>
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his mark</p>
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