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<p n="995"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50894_geo630">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50894_n995-1">John Small</rs>
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a Rogue and<lb></lb>
Vagabond apprehended by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50894_n995-2">John Armstrong</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50894_occ191">Constable</rs>
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<lb></lb>
taken on oath before me one of His Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50894_occ192">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County this<lb></lb>
25th. day of February 1794.</p>
<p n="996">Who Saith That he is by a Trade a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50894_occ193">Chip Hat Weaver</rs>
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that he is at<lb></lb>
present employed by his Father in <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50894_occ194">carrying about Game Cocks</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and that the place of his last legal Settlement is in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50894_geo631">Saint Leonard Shoreditch</rs>
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in the County aforesaid by his father<lb></lb>
renting a House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50894_geo632">Webb Square</rs>
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in the said Parish and paying<lb></lb>
Taxes for the same.</p>
<p n="997">The Mark of the said<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50894_n997-1">John Small</rs>
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</p>
<p n="998">Taken and Sworn before me<lb></lb>
the day and Year first above<lb></lb>
written.</p>
<p n="999">W Browne</p>
<p n="1000">The Examination of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50894_n1000-1">John Armstrong</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Who on his Oath saith That this Evening the 25th. day of february<lb></lb>
instant about seven o Clock he apprehended the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50894_n1000-2">John Small</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50894_geo633">Shoreditch</rs>
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in the said County, the said small was following<lb></lb>
a Man who had a bundle under his Coat, and this Examinant<lb></lb>
verily believes that the said small intended to steal the said Bunde<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
if this Examinant had not apprehended him and this examinant<lb></lb>
saith that the said small is a person of evil fame and a reput<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Thief.</p>
<p n="1001">Taken and Sworn the day and<lb></lb>
year first above written<lb></lb>
before me</p>
<p n="1002"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50894_n1002-1">John Armstrong</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1003">W Browne</p>
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