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Middlesex


The Voluntary Examination of William
Juneux
< no role > taken on Oath the 25th. day of June 1789
before me one of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for
the County of Middlesex

Who on his Oath Saith That on This day fortnight, at night
Examinant and John Cope< no role > being at the Bluecoat boy Allehouse
in the Liberty of Norton Folgate , Cope said to this Examinant
that hetheknew the Holywell in Shoreditch would do for to rob
and he asked this Examinant to go with him and Rob it and
they agreed and set off about Half an hour past Eleven o'Clock
at night and between twelve and One O'Clock they went to the
back part of the house, and Cope got over the Wall into the
Skittle Ground and opened the Yark door and let this Examinant
into the Ground and Cope went to the Window of the Wash house
and turned the pin of the Window round and the Key fell out
and then he Let down the Window shutter, and whilst this
Examinant was at another part of the Yard Cope had opened
the Casement and they both went into the Wash house and an
Old Iron Jack for roasting being fastened over the Man the price
they together took it down and Cope tyed it in his Apron and
they left it in the Ground till four oClock then they fetched it
away and passed a Watchman in the Curtain Road Cope having it
under his Arm, Examinant perceiving the Watchman watching
then he told Cope to go down the Horse ride which he did and
Examinant met him at the other end of the ride, and the Cope
said he had put it under the Dung, afterwards Examinant heard
the Watchman ask Cope what he had been doing there and he told
him he had only been easing himself

Taken and Sworn the
day and Year above said
before me}

John Spiller< no role >

The Mark of
william [mark] Juneaux< no role >




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