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feloniously receiving twenty-three pair of shoe buckles, plated with silver, value 50 s. (being a parcel of the goods, for the stealing of which <rs type="persName" id="t17781021-40-person419"> <interp inst="t17781021-40-person419" type="role" value=""></interp>
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had been convicted) by the said <rs type="persName" id="t17781021-40-person421"> <interp inst="t17781021-40-person421" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, well knowing the said goods to have been stolen </rs>
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<p>I was the prosecutor of Elburne and Goodburn, for stealing thirty-three pair of plated buckles from my boy, <rs type="persName" id="t17781021-40-person423"> <interp inst="t17781021-40-person423" type="role" value=""></interp>
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<p>I am servant to Mr. Price; Flint brought these buckles to Mr. Price. I do not know any thing of Edwards losing the buckles.</p>
<p>Where are the things that were brought to you to sell? - They were taken away from us.</p>
<p>What did Flint say when he brought them? - He wanted to sell them. I did not buy them, but lent him three guineas upon them; my master was out of town at the time, and had been out of town a week.</p>
<p>Court. Gentlemen of the Jury, upon this evidence you must acquit the prisoner.</p>
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NOT GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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