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<p n="27"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx.</note>
The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n27-1">Nathaniel Cowdery</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45001_geo21">Uxbridge</rs>
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Cooper<lb></lb>
taken upon Oath ye. 11th day of January 1796 before <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n27-2">Tho<lb></lb>
Blencowe</rs>
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Esqr one of His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45001_occ6">Justices of ye peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the sd County</p>
<p n="28">This Examinant saith that on Saturday<lb></lb>
the 24th of January last as he was going home from Work he<lb></lb>
saw <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n28-4">John Prass</rs>
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a Boy that he know playing wth a gold mourning Ring<lb></lb>
upon his finger, & asked him what he had there he said a Ring &<lb></lb>
told him he would sell it, he asked him ye price he told him he sh<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
have it for a penny upon wch. suspecting him, he stop the ring & ye.<lb></lb>
Boy & finding it at gold measuring ring of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n28-1">Wm. Foley</rs>
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Esqr he advertised<lb></lb>
it, and the boy was secured, and Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n28-2">Samuel Manning</rs>
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& his servant<lb></lb>
came to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45001_geo22">Uxbridge</rs>
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& discovered to whom ye Ring belongd. & that it<lb></lb>
was last out of a Box from the Wagon of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n28-3">Edwd. Russell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45001_occ7">lawyer</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45001_geo23">Strar<lb></lb>
-bridge</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45001_geo24">Worcestershire</rs>
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<p n="29"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n29-1">Nathaniel Cowdey</rs>
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</p>
<p n="30">Taken upon oath the day &<lb></lb>
was above mentioned before me</p>
<p n="31"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n31-1">Tho. Blencowe</rs>
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</p>
<p n="32">The Examination of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n32-1">Samuel Matting</rs>
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upon oath<lb></lb>
taken as above ye 11th of February 1796.</p>
<p n="33">This Examinant saith that he keep's<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45001_geo25">Bull & month Inn</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45001_geo26">London</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n33-1">Edwd. Russells</rs>
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wagon for <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45001_geo27">Stourbridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Lodges at his house and on ye 19 of January a little Box was delivered<lb></lb>
in his house for the <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45001_occ8">Stourbridge Wagoner</rs>
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& delivered to him ye next<lb></lb>
morning that he did not then know what was in it but has since<lb></lb>
been informed there were 8 Mourning Rings in it for ye Funeral<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n33-2">Wm Foley</rs>
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Esqr<obscured></obscured>
and That the Rings were lost out of ye Box, and seeing<lb></lb>
the advertisemt. of Cowdery he came down to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45001_geo28">Uxbridge</rs>
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& Found one<lb></lb>
of the Rings in ye possesion of Cowdery, and making further Enquiry<lb></lb>
he heard that <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n33-3">Edwd Scass</rs>
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Father of the Boy had sold another<lb></lb>
such Ring (wch. he confessd.) to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n33-4">Francis Hodges</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45001_occ9">pawn broker</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45001_geo29">Uxbridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
the 26 of January who own'd he had the Ring of Prass ye. Father in<lb></lb>
pawn for half a crown, and did not acquaint any body he had such<lb></lb>
a Ring till this morning when it was enquired after</p>
<p n="34">Taken upon oath the day was abovewritten<lb></lb>
before me</p>
<p n="35"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n35-1">Tho. Blencowe</rs>
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</p>
<p n="36"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45001_n36-1">Samuel Manning</rs>
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