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stealing a quart pewter pot, value 13 d.
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October 22d
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She was a second time indicted for
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keep the Yorkshire Grey, a public-house in Eagle-street
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. I lost two pint pots on the 22d of October out of Mrs. Skidimore's passage.
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[The pots were produced in court, and deposed to by the prosecutor.]
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I saw a woman stoop down in my passage on the 22d of October; I ran out into the street after her; I laid hold of her apron, which was tucked up, and two pint pots of Mr. Priest's fell down at my feet. The pots stood in the passage.
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PRISONER's DEFENCE.
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I never was in her passage in my life.
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Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.
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[Whipping. See summary.]
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