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The Examination & Voluntary Confession
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December 1763
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. Before me One of his Majesty's
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for the said County
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of Feloniously and Privately stealing taking
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and carrying away from out of
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the Money Drawer in
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his Shop, a small Wooden Box in which was contained three
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Guineas and an half in Gold the Property of the said
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William Pauldock
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did upon
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Examination by me this Day Confess that on Monday last the
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26th. inst. in the Eveninghe went to the Shop of the aforesaid
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Mr. Palmer of an Errand, who being in a Room behind the Shop.
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and this Examinant perceiving the Till or Money Drawer open
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Reach'd over the Counter & Feloniously took out of the same a little
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Box in which was Two Guineas & a half and no more, wch Money this
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Examinant concealed in a
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in the
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Parish aforesaid, and wch Money upon this Examinants
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Confession as aforesaid was upon immediate search found hid in
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the said Hollow Tree. And further saith not.
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Taken and Acknowledged the
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Day & Year Abovewritten
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Before
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C: Palmer.
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Witness to the Examinants Voluntary
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Signing this Confession, & to the Justices's
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Hand Writing
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