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The several Examinations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1084-1">Thomas Hawkins</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1084-2">George Bosworth</rs>
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Labourers<lb></lb>
taken before me one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45018_occ110">Justices of<lb></lb>
the peace</rs>
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in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo453">County of Essex</rs>
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this<lb></lb>
23dday of March 1772 who one their Oaths<lb></lb>
severally say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1084-3">Thomas Hawkins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on his oath saith</p>
<p n="1085">That he was a Helper to<del>the</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1085-1">Edward Mould</rs>
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who is a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Carter<lb></lb>
to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1085-2">James Barwick</rs>
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of Waltham Holy Boss in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo454">County of Essex</rs>
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Esquire and hath<del>be</del>
been Servant to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1085-3">James Barwick</rs>
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Esqr.<lb></lb>
ever since May last & during that time hath been chiefly employed as<lb></lb>
a Helper to the said Edward & that about 2 days after he came into<lb></lb>
his Service he went with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1085-4">Edward Mould</rs>
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from Waltham aforesaid to London with a load<lb></lb>
of Hay which was then going to be carried to one Mr Cawers in London & that<lb></lb>
as he was upon the Road in Company with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1085-5">Edward Mould</rs>
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<lb></lb>
he told this Examinant that he had got a Truss of Hay more than the<lb></lb>
load & that he should sell it & woud give this Examinant half the<lb></lb>
Money, which he accordingly did whose he got to London at this Examining<lb></lb>
saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1085-6">Edward Mould</rs>
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sell the said Truss of Hay to Torn the<lb></lb>
ostler at the Basing house <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo455">Shoreditch</rs>
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for a shillingsAnd that he hath<lb></lb>
almost every Week been up to London with the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1085-7">Edward Mould</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to assist him in taking a Load of Hay every Week to the said Mr. Carvers and<lb></lb>
that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n1085-8">Edward Mould</rs>
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<del>hath</del>
always took one or more Tursses <lb></lb>
of Hay more than the Lord which he sold sometimes to the said</p>
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