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<p n="425"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
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The Voluntary Examination<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50526_n425-1">John<lb></lb>
Tomkins</rs>
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taken this Seventh Day of September<lb></lb>
1763 before me <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50526_n425-2">Israel Ialabert</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50526_occ112">Esquire</rs>
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one of<lb></lb>
his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50526_occ113">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50526_geo228">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="426">First this Examinant saith that about September last<lb></lb>
he together with John Adeo, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50526_n426-1">George Tucker</rs>
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(who is now<lb></lb>
a Prisoner in one of the Compters) lefted up a Sash belonging<lb></lb>
to a little Room by the Side of a Chandler Shop in Pearbree<lb></lb>
Street and took out a light coloured Coat which hung upon<lb></lb>
the Back of a Chair, that he lifted up the Sash & Adee took<lb></lb>
out the Coat, which Adee pleaded for half a Guinea in<lb></lb>
Barbicam. each having 3s 6d upon the Division. That<lb></lb>
about two Night afterwards the said Adee and Tucker<lb></lb>
together with this Examinant went to a House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50526_geo229">Old<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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where Adee had formerly lodged tenanted by an old<lb></lb>
Woman very deaf and who keeper a Chandler's shop, that<lb></lb>
Tucker opened the Door, this Examinant went into the Shop<lb></lb>
about night or nine o' Clock in the Evening and took (the old<lb></lb>
Woman being backwards) three <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50526_geo230">Gloucester</rs>
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Cheeses, and<lb></lb>
in conveying them out he dropt them which making a<lb></lb>
Disturbance this Examinant snatched up one, Tucker took<lb></lb>
the other two and then they both went out into the Street<lb></lb>
where Adee writed for them & reced one of Tucker, they then<lb></lb>
carried All the Cheeses to Adee Lodging but what become<lb></lb>
of them this Examinant doth not Know. That all the winter<lb></lb>
he this Informant did nothing or was concerned in any<lb></lb>
felonious Matter, but that in the Spring about February<lb></lb>
or March this Examinant together with <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50526_n426-2">Thomas Morgan</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50526_n426-23">John Carls</rs>
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and Said Adee went to the Cheshire Cheese at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50526_geo231">Mount Pleasant</rs>
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having before fixed upon that House<lb></lb>
with Instant to Steal a Silver Tankard, and calling for some<lb></lb>
Beer went into the Shuffle to and Room where the Boy<lb></lb>
bringing it in a Pewter Quart Pet they were disappointed<lb></lb>
and called for more Beer which the Boy brought in a Silver<lb></lb>
Tankard and he going away they drank the Beer as quick<lb></lb>
as they could the others went out and this Examinant</p>
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