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<p n="179"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx. ss{</note>
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The Voluntary Examination and Confession of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50401_n179-1">John Busby</rs>
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Taken before me One of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50401_occ42">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County This<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50401_date42">Sixth Day of February</rs>
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in the year One<lb></lb>
Thousand Seven Hundred and Fourty Nine.</p>
<p n="180">This Examinant Voluntary Confesseth and Saith That upon Friday<lb></lb>
last the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50401_date43">Second Day of this Instant February</rs>
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, he this Examinant along<lb></lb>
with One who goes by the name of Carroty Jack, (a Short squat fellow<lb></lb>
very much filled with the small Pax Wears an old blue Jacket & Canvas<lb></lb>
Apron & one known by the name of Little Will (a Slim Lad, wears an old<lb></lb>
red Jacket and blue Apron with his Own Hair) went to a Cheese monger's<lb></lb>
Shop near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50401_geo103">St. Margarets Hill</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50401_geo104">Southwark</rs>
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opposite the Black Horse there<lb></lb>
(about Seven O'Clock at night or a little after,) and little Will lifted a<lb></lb>
Firken off some Cheese standing by the Door and Carroty Jack look<lb></lb>
One Chesshire Cheese and this Examinant look another, which Carrotty<lb></lb>
Jack sold, but this Examinant can't tell where. And further this Examt.<lb></lb>
voluntarly Confesseth and saith That upon Saturday last in the after<lb></lb>
noon Carrotty Jack (in Company with one Known by the name of<lb></lb>
Sweep (a little short fellow, wears a blue Waste Coat, and a Cap) and<lb></lb>
this Examinant) look one linnen or cotton flower'd given out of a<lb></lb>
Window as it hung drying upon a Line in a house in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50401_geo105">Church Lane</rs>
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,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
a Gen Shop about Two Doors up, which<lb></lb>
on old Woman as lives in Dirty Lane by <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50401_geo106">Brick Lane</rs>
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, her Two Daughters<lb></lb>
Betty and Molly pawn'd for Four shillings; And further this<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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Examt. confesseth and saith, That last night Carroty Jack, Little<lb></lb>
Will, Sweep, This Examinant and another person whose name he<lb></lb>
does not know (a little fellow with a Blew le<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
at, and a Handkerchief<lb></lb>
about his neck and a Cotton Cap) went up a Lane as<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
turns<lb></lb>
up on the right hand as you go from the Horse Ferry in Lambeth<lb></lb>
and about Fourty or Fifty Doors up This Examt. look a<lb></lb>
Hough of Park from a Butcher's Scall on the Right hand side<lb></lb>
of the way which Little will took from this Examt. And this<lb></lb>
Examint. further confesseth and saith That about Eleven<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Clock<lb></lb>
the same Night Carroty Jack<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and this Examt. went<lb></lb>
in to Mr. Wainwright Distiller, his shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50401_geo107">Spittle Fields</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
had each of them a Dram (and the other Three stood in the<lb></lb>
Alley facing the Door) whereupon Carroty Jack and this Examt<lb></lb>
went to the other Three (who wailed for them) and it was agreed<lb></lb>
upon That the little fellow whose name this Examinant<lb></lb>
does</p>
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