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Matthew Matthewson
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28th. day of February 1770
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John Bird
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Benjamin Murphy
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and this Informant broke open a house in China Row Chelsea,
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from whence they Stole a great Quantity of Plate which the said
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Thomas
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sold part of it to
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Sarah Pitman
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otherwise Cave in his own Room in
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his father's house in Shepherd's Court
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Clerkenwell
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and the Remainder of it to
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a Jew in the Same place, says that on a Sunday Night about a Month or
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five Weeks ago the said
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the
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and
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a person who goes by the Name of Jem Dumby and this Informant
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broke open a Hosier's Shop in Holborn and Stole a Quantity of Stockings
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Benjamin Murphy
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to a Jew
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in Mrs. Evans's in
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St. Giles's
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, says that Saturday Night was sevenight
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John Bird
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and the said
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Benjamin Murphy
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called to this Informant
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who was then in his own Room in Bambridge Street
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and desired him
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to go out with them, that he did not go with them but lent them a Chisel
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that the next Morning the said
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John
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told this Informant that they had broke open a house in
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Parliament
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and had left the Plate they had Stolen with one Hannah at Mrs. Evans's
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in
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, that the said
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then had on a pair of Breeches which
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he told this Informant he had stolen out of the said house in
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Parliament Street
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& which
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he afterwards exchanged for another pair in
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Monmouth Street
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, says
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that the said
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John Bird
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has Since told this Informant that they had sold
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the said Plate to the said
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Sarah Pitman
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otherwise Cave
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Sworn before me
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Febry. 28 1770
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Matthew Matthewson
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