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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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And this Informant further faith that he suspects and believes
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that the said Parsons obtained the said Linen and Handker
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-chiefs with a felonious intent to steal the sameThat
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about afortnight after this, this Informant secured said
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and lodged him in
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the Watch House in
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from whence by the
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Advice of his Friends he liberated himsaid Parsons
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first telling him that he would take him to where the
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Liners were, and that he would get them back again
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that said Parsons with this Informant and the Beadle of
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went in a Coach to Mr.
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Parkers a Pawnbrokers in
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Fleet Street
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, from whence a person
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came out, whom said Parsons asked for the two pieces
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of Linen that he had Sold him the other day for six Pounds
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for that he (Parsons) had got into Trouble and should
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be glad to have themThat said Person, who represented
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Mr. Parker replied that he had sold said Liners the next day after he had
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received them and had not got themThat said Parsons
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afterwards took his Informant to a
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Pawnbrokers Shop
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in Watling
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Sheet where he said he had sold one other piece of
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Linen for two pound sixteen Shillings and whither this
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Informant went with him and where said Pawnbroker
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confessed that he had bought it and sold it again to a
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