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one of his Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace
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this 15th. day of the 1759
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late of
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Thomas
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Hugher
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one
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Thomas Hanfield
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Moses Willough
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by at the
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and one Mrs. Smith Plumber the Corner of
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half Moon Alley
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, says that a little before Christmas last, he this Informant in
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Company with the said
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John Guest
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Peter Mason
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and Thomas Hugher
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wentley Night to some new Building near
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Whitfields Tabernacle
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in
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Totten
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-ham Court Road
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, and Took from thence some Deal
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John Guest
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and carried the said Deals Etc.
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away and shott them
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up
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, says the said Cannan received
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half a Guince for his Trouble, says that the said Deals were Sold to the
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Thomas Hanfield
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, and that Blakehalls Cart of Webb Square
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carried them to Hanfields Shop in wheelers Street, says he this
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Informt. in Company with the said
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Peter Mason
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went by Night to a Timber Yard near
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and Took
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from them a Quantity of flooring Boards and double Deals which
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they carried the same Morning to the Turnpike near the Red Lyon
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Islington
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, says that the next Morning the said Deals were carried
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ley a Cart hired in
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to the Shop of the said
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in
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Wheelers Street aforesaid, says that the said
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Thomas Hanfield
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was
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present at the loading the said Deals at the said Turnpike that he bought
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</
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the same well knowing them to be Stolen, says he this Informt.
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lb
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</
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the said Guest and Mason Took from off a Stable and Barn near the
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lb
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Anger Inn
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type
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Islington
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a Quantity of Gutter Lead,
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reason
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"illegible"
>
</
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>
which Guest and
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lb
>
</
lb
>
this Informt. sold to Mrs. Smith Plumber Corner of half moon Alley
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lb
>
</
lb
>
aforesaid, says that he this Informt. the said Guest and Mason Took from
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lb
>
</
lb
>
a Timber Yard in Woods Close, a Quantity of
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obscured
>
</
obscured
>
Boards Inch and
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
Quarter thick, & carried the same to an Old Home on
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"placeName"
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>
Clerkenwell
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>
</
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>
Green
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, says that
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Moses Willoughby
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>
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type
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of
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type
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>
Bricklane
</
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>
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inst
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>
aforesd. saw the sd.
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
Boards at the said Place, and bought them for about twenty pence a
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
Board, that the said Guest carried them to Willonghby's House in a
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
Cart and received the Money for the same, says that he this Informt.
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
the said Guest and Mason Took another Quantity of the same Board
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
from the same Yard, and carried them on their backs to a House
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
where there are two Lyons at the door at the bottom of
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type
=
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id
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Old Street
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>
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=
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>
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
& put them in the Yard belonging to the said House
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p
>
</
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