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Lisot Coleman of Saint Dunstan Stepney in the saw
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an Evidence on his Majestys behalf and
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Taken this 28th day of October 1782 before us two
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Mile End when they staid kill between Eleven and Twelve
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O Clock. That they all Four
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with Informant Peters & Keates. who proceeded immediately
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to a house in Narrow Street Ratcliff lately occupied by the
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proposed taking his Boat and going up the River. That
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got into the said Boat and rowed in the
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as Stone Sta
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from thence One
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they Put into Keates's BoatThat they afterwards
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to a Barge which lay Off the East India Ware houses and
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took from thence a large Quantity of Shop Six. Twelve &
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Eighteen Pounders. That they then returned to the house
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lately
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Occupied by Keates in
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aforesaid in order
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of Ratcliff. Saith that at the time
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they came to
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Joseph Bennett
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Thomas Kelvie
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who made his Escape
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now present and another person who
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made his Escape unloading a Skiff in which was a
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large Quantity of Junk which Informant verily believes
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was Stole and which they Informed him they had got in
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from Woolwich or Deptford. Lastly Saith that he never
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was directly or undirectly Concerned either with the above
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