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on the King's highway, putting him in fear, &c. and taking from him a hat, value 5 s. a perriwig, value 5 s. and 5 s. 6 d. in money </rs>
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. I had business to do last Sunday in Whitechappel, and returning home in the evening with <rs type="persName" id="t17440912-51-person506"> <interp inst="t17440912-51-person506" type="role" value=""></interp>
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over Moorfields, it rained, and we went in and drank a pot of beer; going down Long-Lane between 9 and 10 o'clock, Berry stopped to do his occasions and I went on a little before. As soon as I came to the cross way to go into <rs type="placeName" id="t17440912-51-crimeloc290">Hosier-Lane</rs>
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, I was stopped on the highway by three fellows; the Prisoners are two of them, and the other was a lusty fellow; he laid hold of my breast, and I said, what do you want? Another came up to me and said, he wanted my money - That genleman there in the blue, Peirson; and he bid Fitzwalter put his hand in my pocket, and see what money I had got, and said if I said any thing he would rip me open.</p>
<p>Q. Had he a knife in his hand?</p>
<p>Jones. I believe he had a knife in his hand: Berry was then coming along, and I cried, hollo, Mr. Berry! and then the lusty fellow jumped over the rails with my hat and wig.</p>
<p>Q. Did either of the Prisoners put his hand in your pocket?</p>
<p>Jones. Yes, Fitzwalter did, and took out 5 s. 6 d. then Mr. Berry came up; I laid hold of Fitzwalter, and Berry laid hold of Peirson; we endeavoured<xptr type="pageFacsimile" doc="174409120030"></xptr>
to get them to a publick house to secure them, and up came four or five lusty fellows and said, D - n your eyes let them go, or we will cut you as small as sausages - They had something in their hands, but I can't tell whether they were knives or swords, and we were obliged to let them go to preserve our lives, but they were taken again on Tuesday night.</p>
<p>Q. How came you to know them again as it was so late in the night?</p>
<p>Jones. The lamps were very light - I am sure the Prisoners are the persons; I took particular notice of them and of their cloaths.</p>
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. Mr. Jones and I went out together last Sunday, and returning home going down Long-Lane, I had occasion to ease myself and he kept on. In about two or three minutes I came up with him, and he was by the rounds near Hosier-Lane, I said, Hollo, Mr. Jones! said he, I am robbed. I took hold of this boy in the blue coat [Peirson] and Jones took hold of him in the green [ Fitzwalter ] one had an apron on hanging down, and the other had something about him tucked up. I saw Jones without his hat and wig; then four or five fellows came up to us and said, What are you going to do with those boys? One of them had a stick and jobbed it in my face, and they said they would cut us as small as sausages if we did not let them go, and indeed I was glad to let them go. - I saw something glisten, but whether it was a sword or a hanger I cannot tell - I know these are the persons, because we had them a minute or two under a lamp in Smithfield. The Tuesday following I saw the Prisoners in the fair in Southwark, and I said to one that was there, these chaps robbed a friend of mine last Sunday. I dogged them out of the fair to St. Margaret's-Hill, and then took them; and Peirson said in the coach as we were coming along, that we could not hurt them, for they did nothing but pick pockets of handkerchiefs - They said they lived in Black Boy-Alley.</p>
<p>Peirson. We have no witnesses, we have none but our own dear selves. Both <rs id="t17440912-51-verdict291" type="verdictDescription"> <interp inst="t17440912-51-verdict291" type="verdictCategory" value="guilty"></interp>
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<p>Peirson. I am between fourteen and fifteen years old.</p>
<p>Fitzwalter . I was thirteen years old last July.</p>
<p>The Jury on account of their youth, recommended them to the Court as objects of his Majesty's mercy.</p>
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