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<p n="7"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx</note>
<lb></lb>
The Examination & Voluntary Confession<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45008_n7-1">William Pauldock</rs>
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taken this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45008_date3">30th. day of<lb></lb>
December 1763</rs>
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. Before me One of his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45008_occ3">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County</p>
<p n="8">The said Examinant being charged before me by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45008_n8-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Palmer</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45008_geo7">St. Mary Islington</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
Aforesaid <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45008_occ4">Grocer</rs>
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of Feloniously and Privately stealing taking<lb></lb>
and carrying away from out of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the Money Drawer in<lb></lb>
his Shop, a small Wooden Box in which was contained three<lb></lb>
Guineas and an half in Gold the Property of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45008_n8-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Palmer</rs>
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. He the said Examinant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45008_n8-3">William Pauldock</rs>
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did upon<lb></lb>
Examination by me this Day Confess that on Monday last the<lb></lb>
26th. inst. in the Eveninghe went to the Shop of the aforesaid<lb></lb>
Mr. Palmer of an Errand, who being in a Room behind the Shop.<lb></lb>
and this Examinant perceiving the Till or Money Drawer open<lb></lb>
Reach'd over the Counter & Feloniously took out of the same a little<lb></lb>
Box in which was Two Guineas & a half and no more, wch Money this<lb></lb>
Examinant concealed in a <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45008_geo8">Hollow Tree</rs>
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near the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45008_geo9">Cross Street</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
Parish aforesaid, and wch Money upon this Examinants<lb></lb>
Confession as aforesaid was upon immediate search found hid in<lb></lb>
the said Hollow Tree. And further saith not.</p>
<p n="9">Taken and Acknowledged the<lb></lb>
Day & Year Abovewritten<lb></lb>
Before</p>
<p n="10">C: Palmer.</p>
<p n="11"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45008_n11-1">Wm Pauldock</rs>
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<p n="12">Witness to the Examinants Voluntary<lb></lb>
Signing this Confession, & to the Justices's<lb></lb>
Hand Writing</p>
<p n="13"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45008_n13-1">Danl Baker</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45008_occ5">Constable</rs>
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