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Who being on Oath says the sixteen pair of Mens Stocking
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aforesaid this afternoon. That between the hours of Four and Five The prisoners who
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of Stockings produced into his hands and run out with the same That
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she run after him and cryed Stop thief that he run up the first Turning
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on the left hand which is not a Thorough fare that she pursued him
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Mathematical Instrument maker and on Oath That This afternoon between the hours of
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Four and five as he was at Work backward he heard the Cry of Stop thief says he
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burning round by his said
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masters shop with all the said Stockings produced except one pair which had falled
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and saw them picked up that he secured the Prisoner and brought
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they had been taken fromThat he saw them all sorted as they now appear
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and put into the Coloured Silk Handkerchief now produced
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The day and Year abovementioned
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Before us
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on her Oath says The sixteen pair of Cotton Stockings of Different Colours
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produced Two pair of which she knows to be of her Husband making and his property
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property likewise and are of the Value of Three pound
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Ann Dewick
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being asked by me what he has to
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say for himself Answered nothing and that he was in Liquor
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The Declaration and signing thereof before me
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The
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