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The Voluntary examination of
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William Mason
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, who
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on his Oath, Saith, that on Saturday the second of this
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Month in the evening, he went into his, necessary house, and
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took his Silver watch out of his Pockett, and laid it in a little
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Shelf in the said necessary, and after he had Done his occasions
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came away, and forgot to put his watch in
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Pockett again
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and upon his return from the necessary went out with some
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beer, he being a publican in the Parish of
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St. Margarett westminster
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in a very short time after missed his watch and
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that
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die had left: it in his necessary, he Imediatly went to
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to look for it, and found it was gone upon his return
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the necessary
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enquired who had been their, and was told by his wife and others,
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that a Soldier now present who goes by the name of
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John Walter
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had been in the necessary and was the only person that had been there
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since this examinant and had paid for a pint of beer, and went away
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very Parcipitatily Leaving the greatest Part of the beer behind him
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on the Following day the watch was brought to him by a woman
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who acknowledged to this examinant it was delivered by the Prisonor
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Sworn before me this
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7th Day of February 1782}
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Jonan Durden
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