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<p n="228"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo115">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information and Voluntary<lb></lb>
Confession of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n228-1">William Nevill</rs>
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late of Reading<lb></lb>
in the County of Berks but now <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45025_occ43">Servant</rs>
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to <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n228-2">Elizabeth Carpenter</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo116">New Gravel Lane<lb></lb>
Shadwell</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45025_occ44">Widow</rs>
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. Taken this 21st. day of<lb></lb>
November 1782 before us Two of his Majestys<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45025_occ45">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and the said<lb></lb>
County</p>
<p n="229">Who being on his Oath Saith that he is<lb></lb>
now about Fourteen years of Age and that he was<lb></lb>
Hered by the above named <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n229-1">Elizabeth Carpenter</rs>
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about<lb></lb>
three Weeks ago at two shillings per Week in the<lb></lb>
Capacity of an Errand & Market boy. That on<lb></lb>
Thursday or Friday the seventh of Novr. Inst. his Mistress the<lb></lb>
(said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45025_n229-2">Elizabeth Carpenter</rs>
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, Ordered him to go with her<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
Marsh to drive home Two Cows which<lb></lb>
She told Informant she had Bought but did not at<lb></lb>
that time say of whom, That they accordingly went<lb></lb>
down to Poplar and from thence to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo117">Blackwall</rs>
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<lb></lb>
up Cole Harber Walked up to the first Stile on<lb></lb>
the Marsh Wall then turned cross the fields into<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45025_geo118">Harrow Lane</rs>
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, and went directly to the Field Gate<lb></lb>
(which Informant found unlocked) That he saw two<lb></lb>
Cows feed<obscured></obscured>
the said Field, both of which were in Colf which<del>his</del>
Informant<lb></lb>
Mistress to<obscured></obscured>
him were the two Cows, and then<lb></lb>
Asked him if they should take them both home or<lb></lb>
only One when Informant Answered do as you<lb></lb>
like either take one or Both, his Mistress then said<lb></lb>
we will take both as it well<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Save us the<lb></lb>
Trouble of coming again Accordingly they drove them both<lb></lb>
away from the said Field to the Field of Mr Eastop<lb></lb>
adjoining to Fawdon fields where they Continued</p>
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