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Joseph Parker
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15th of Feb 1786
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John Staples
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Wm Parker
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Hogshead of Sperma Cate Oyl was taken from
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his door between the Hours of Five and Six in
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the Evening says he traced the said Hogshead into
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, to the House of the Prisoner who
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who he had Informed of the Robbery and whose he suspected
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the said Cash of oil was concealed in the house of the said
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been Stove and the Oil running about That the Staves
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now produced are the Staves of the said Cask and the Sample
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of Oyl now produced is part of the Oyl which run through
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the Floor into the Cellar That he is certain the Staves are the
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Staves of the said Cash and Verily beleives the oyl produced
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is the same Oyl which was in the said Cask
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in the Evening his Brother
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informed him of his being
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robbed of a Hogshead it Oil and about the hour of Eight the same
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Evening he with
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Charles Dorman
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went into
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to the house of
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says he looked through the key hole
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of the door and saw the said Viner lock cutting the hoops of a Cask
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which Cask was then in his Shop. That he called to Dorman and
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he heard the Cask Burst and the Contents Running out says
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he got into the said House and saw that a Cask of Oil had been cut by
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the Hoops and Staves and Oil running about which Staves hoops
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and Oyl his Brother
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William Parker
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claimed as his property Says
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he saw the said
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at the door of his house who escaped whilst
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he this Informant went for a Candle
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Taken and Sworn
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The
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W Parker
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Joseph Parker
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