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1st January 1786 - 23rd February 1787

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And this Informant further faith that he suspects and believes
that the said Parsons obtained the said Linen and Handker
-chiefs with a felonious intent to steal the sameThat
about afortnight after this, this Informant secured said
Parsons in Holles Street Cavendish Square and lodged him in
the Watch House in Mount Street from whence by the
Advice of his Friends he liberated himsaid Parsons
first telling him that he would take him to where the
Liners were, and that he would get them back again
that said Parsons with this Informant and the Beadle of
Saint George Hanover Square went in a Coach to Mr.
Parkers a Pawnbrokers in Fleet Street , from whence a person
came out, whom said Parsons asked for the two pieces
of Linen that he had Sold him the other day for six Pounds
for that he (Parsons) had got into Trouble and should
be glad to have themThat said Person, who represented
Mr. Parker replied that he had sold said Liners the next day after he had
received them and had not got themThat said Parsons
afterwards took his Informant to a Pawnbrokers Shop in Watling
Sheet where he said he had sold one other piece of
Linen for two pound sixteen Shillings and whither this
Informant went with him and where said Pawnbroker
confessed that he had bought it and sold it again to a




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