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The Examination and Voluntary Confession
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of the Hamlet of Poplar in the
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for the said County this first Day of
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March in the year of our Lord 1717.
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This Examinant Cofesseth and Saith that this Day
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about one o'Clock he was at work in the white Lead
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coat lying by him went
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and Searched the Pockets of the same and found in one
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of them a Tin Box and having Opened it he this
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Examinant found therein two half Guineas Which he
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the Labourers the said Box and Two half Guineas was
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found in the Posession of him this Examinant And
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Taken and acknowleged the Day
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and year aforesaid Before me
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