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<p n="318"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo346">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit}</note>
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The Voluntary Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n318-1">James Clarke</rs>
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taken on Oath before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n318-2">William Blackborow</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ133">Esqr</rs>
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One of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ134">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and<lb></lb>
for the said County this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date62">8th. day of March 1787</rs>
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<p n="319">Who on his Oath saith that he hath known the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n319-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Taylor</rs>
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for a considerable time past that about five Months ago<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n319-2">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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went to lodge as<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n319-3">William Trott</rs>
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's the<lb></lb>
younger at the Corner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo347">Goats Yard</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo348">White Cross Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo349">Saint Lukes</rs>
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where he Remained for<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
about the space of Five Months where<lb></lb>
this Examinant hath frequently Seen him by calling there to see the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n319-4">William Trott</rs>
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who is an Acquaintance of this Examinants<lb></lb>
That about a Months ago the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n319-5">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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went to lodge<lb></lb>
at a House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo350">Golden Lane</rs>
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kept by the Father of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n319-6">William<lb></lb>
Trott</rs>
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. and where Examinant had a Room to work in That this<lb></lb>
Examinant hath frequently heard the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n319-7">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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say<lb></lb>
that one Athill who was an Evidence against <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n319-8">Richard Stephens</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n319-9">Henry Fossett</rs>
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& others was a bloody Rogue and deserved Hanging<lb></lb>
more than they did and Should be glad if he the said Athill<lb></lb>
wad Dead and that it was the Common talk in the House<lb></lb>
that the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n319-10">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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was obliged to be out of the<lb></lb>
Way for the Robbery of Mr Collier at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo351">Islington</rs>
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and that he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n319-11">Thomas<lb></lb>
Taylor</rs>
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would be hanged if taken upon Athills Evidence<lb></lb>
and this Examinant was particularly desired by the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n319-12">Thomas Taylor</rs>
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to keep Secret his place of Residence<lb></lb>
and not give Intelligence thereof to any person whatever<lb></lb>
for that it might come to the Runners knowledge and they<lb></lb>
would offer to lay Examinant a Guinea or so that he did not<lb></lb>
know where the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n319-26">Thos. Taylor</rs>
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was to be found and by that<lb></lb>
means he the said Thos. Taylor should be taken and therefore the<lb></lb>
said Thos. Taylor particularly cautioned Examt. not to speak of it<lb></lb>
to any Persons which Examt. promised to do.</p>
<p n="320">Taken and Sworn before me the Day &<lb></lb>
Year above Written<lb></lb>
W Blackborow}</p>
<p n="321"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n321-1">James Clark</rs>
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