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feloniously stealing on the <rs id="t17830226-32-cd177" type="crimeDate">7th day of February</rs>
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instant, two leather boots, value 20 s. </rs>
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George Tarrington <interp inst="t17830226-32-victim373" type="surname" value="Tarrington"></interp>
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sworn.</p>
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, on the 7th of Feb. the prisoner was brought to my house, with two boots, between nine and ten in the evening, his father and mother brought him with the boots, in custody with a butcher's man; he had confessed the fact.</p>
<p>Court. Did not you assent to the proposition that it would be better for him, that he should confess? - No, I did not say a word about it, he acted for himself.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>This young man the prisoner, came by our shop, and took a piece of meat, off my master's board, I took him, and found these boots upon him; he confessed that he took them out of this gentleman's shop, we sent for his father and mother, and he was taken to the prosecutors.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am the constable, the prosecutor delivered these boots to me.</p>
<p>(The boots deposed to.)</p>
<p>PRISONER's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>As I was coming up Cheapside, I saw a piece of paper lay a top of a cellar window, and I picked it up, and I opened it, and I found these boots; I was going to my father in Bow-lane.</p>
<p>The prisoner called one witnesses, who gave him a good character.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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Sentence respited till next sessions, being recommended to go to sea </rs>
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