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The Examination of
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charged
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with Felony taken before me this
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5th. day of Janry
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Who saith that he is a Labourer and has been in London
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six Weeks onlyThat he was born at Stratfordsea in HantsThat
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he hath never been in any employ since he came to LondonThat
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he intended going into Kent, digging in Hop GroundsThat he lives
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at a House in the Mint but cannot tell where or described the House
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that he knows
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Joseph Busby
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als. Burbidge now present who was with
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MilitiaThat said
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Joseph Busby
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Burbidge
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is by trade a Bricklayer and sleeps chiefly in this Examinants Lodgings
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That he also knows one
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William Allen
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who is a
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Bricklayer
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and lives in Tothill Street
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That Busby, Allen, and this Examinant sat out
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last Night between seven and eight o'Clock to go to a House at or near
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near Wilsden
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where said Busby and Allen
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told this Examinant that they knew how to get a few ShillingsThat
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said Busby, Allen, and this Examinant got over the Garden Wall
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of a Gentlemans House, which he hath since understood belongs to
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Mr.
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aforesaid where they
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Stole
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the Lead now Produced but in conveying the same away the said
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Busby was fired at and Wounded and afterwards apprehended
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together with this Examinant and the said Allen escaped.
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Taken and acknowledged
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the day and Year first above
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Written before me}
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Smith
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Mark
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Witness
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