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stealing 3 yards of gold lace, value 5 s.
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. The prisoner took away three yards of gold lace from out of my room, when I was asleep.
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Q. How do you know that?
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Ridle. She was out of place, and (as my wife lay in) I let the prisoner be in my room till she could get a service. Upon missing the lace, I charged her with taking it. She own'd it, and directed us to the pawnbroker where she had pawn'd it. The constable went and brought it: he has it now in his custody. I am a soldier; and this lace I had to make up for sergeants cloaths.
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Q. Whose property was it?
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Ridle. The property of
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. We took her before a magistrate, and she there confessed she took it.
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Prisoner's defence.
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The evidence sent me once before with twelve yards of lace cut out into loops to pawn.
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Q. to Ridle. Did you send her with any lace to pawn?
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Ridle. I did, as my wife lay in, and I wanted money; but I fetch'd it out again in a day or two.
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Prisoner. His wife sent me with this lace that I now am charged with at three different times.
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Ridle. They were taken at three different times, and were three different pieces.
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She was a second time indicted for that
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, did feloniously and wilfully go at large, and escape, without the consent of the gaoler
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. I am keeper of Tothill-Fields Bridewell, and the prisoner was brought to me by a constable with a warrant of commitment by justice Carkass. He produced the warrant.
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. I saw the warrant sign'd by
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, Esq; I also saw the prisoner lock'd up safe in her ward between eight and nine at night; and after she was gone, when we took her up, she confessed that with a knife she wrench'd off the iron plate under which the lock goes, and got out into a garden, and by the help of some things which we found the next morning she got upon a wall which was fifteen foot high on that side, and twenty-five on the other side, where she jump'd down.
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The warrant read in court to this purport:
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'' Westminster to wit, To the keeper of Tothill-Fields '' Bridewell, or his deputy Receive into '' your custody the body of
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, brought '' before me by
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'' upon oath by
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and her own confession, '' for taking and carrying away three yards of '' gold lace, value, 5 s. the property of his majesty, '' and her safely keep in your custody, till she is discharged '' by due course of law.
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June the 9th, 1756.
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Prisoner's defence.
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I was there 3 weeks, and for four days without victuals, being obliged to eat the cabbage stalks off the dunghill, because there is no allowance for us.
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Q. to Atersal. Is there no allowance for the prisoners?
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Atersal. There is 50 l. per year allowed for those that are not able to support themselves; she never applied to me, or I should have relieved her.
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