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8 Novr. 1787
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to wit}
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The Valuntary Confession of
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John Neale
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Chimney Sweeper
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Who Sayth that he Yesterday between Eleven
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and Twelve oClock he not having any Clock
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to appear in the That
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he look at for
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Employment he Went and broke open a
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Door & an Apartment
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William Brewer
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in
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Carrier
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in the
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Parish of St Giles
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in the Fields
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and in the said Apartment
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he broke open a Box and Stolen there and
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a Coat 2 Waistcoats One Pair of Breeches
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one Shirt One Silk Hand
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&
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one Linen do where he sold to a Jew as One Shirt for 9 Shillgs where was taken about his
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and one Half Crown peice & One Sis pence is
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Silverall where Apparel and money
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James
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Kent
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had appartments in the same house
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Take before me this
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8th. day of Novemr. 1787}
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Edwd. Read
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John
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The Mark
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Neale
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The Information of
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James Kent
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who on his Oath Saith
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that Yesterday
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Afternoon about 4 OClock when he came home to his
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Lodgings
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William Brewer
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Present informed him
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that the Door of his Appartment had been broke open
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and that his (James Kents) Box had
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been broke
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open and all his Things Stolen ant and carried
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awayand that he suspected the Prisoner
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John
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Neale
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to have been the Person and that he last
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all the things above Mentioned in the Prisoner
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Confess
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way and that the Handkerchief found on the
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Prisoners Neck is his Property
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Taken before me this
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8th:Day of Nov: 1787}
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Edw: Read
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James
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The Mark
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of
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Kent
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