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<p n="350"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo259">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n350-1">James Smith</rs>
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charged<lb></lb>
with Felony taken before me this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45033_date75">5th. day of Janry<lb></lb>
1787</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="351">Who saith that he is a Labourer and has been in London<lb></lb>
six Weeks onlyThat he was born at Stratfordsea in HantsThat<lb></lb>
he hath never been in any employ since he came to LondonThat<lb></lb>
he intended going into Kent, digging in Hop GroundsThat he lives<lb></lb>
at a House in the Mint but cannot tell where or described the House<lb></lb>
that he knows <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n351-1">Joseph Busby</rs>
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als. Burbidge now present who was with<lb></lb>
him in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo260">Berkshire</rs>
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MilitiaThat said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n351-2">Joseph Busby</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n351-3">als.<lb></lb>
Burbidge</rs>
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is by trade a Bricklayer and sleeps chiefly in this Examinants Lodgings<del>and</del>
That he also knows one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n351-4">William Allen</rs>
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who is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45033_occ75">Bricklayer</rs>
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and lives in Tothill Street<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo261">Westminster</rs>
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That Busby, Allen, and this Examinant sat out<lb></lb>
last Night between seven and eight o'Clock to go to a House at or near<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo262">Halsden Green</rs>
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near Wilsden<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
where said Busby and Allen<lb></lb>
told this Examinant that they knew how to get a few ShillingsThat<lb></lb>
said Busby, Allen, and this Examinant got over the Garden Wall<lb></lb>
of a Gentlemans House, which he hath since understood belongs to<lb></lb>
Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n351-5">Robert Tubbs</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo263">Halsden Green</rs>
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aforesaid where they<del>of</del>
Stole<lb></lb>
the Lead now Produced but in conveying the same away the said<lb></lb>
Busby was fired at and Wounded and afterwards apprehended<lb></lb>
together with this Examinant and the said Allen escaped.</p>
<p n="352">Taken and acknowledged<lb></lb>
the day and Year first above<lb></lb>
Written before me}</p>
<p n="353"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n353-1">Sampr Wright</rs>
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</p>
<p n="354">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n354-1">James<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Smith</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="355">his<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n355-1">John<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Kitchener</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="356">Witness</p>
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