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