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<p n="1005">three Weeks that he had lost it two Days & when found<lb></lb>
& brought back Mr. French he refused to accept it but stopt<lb></lb>
his Wages weekly towards paying for the same that he<lb></lb>
then told the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1005-1">George Clarke</rs>
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he knew Mr. French did<lb></lb>
no such Thing as stop the Prisoner's Wages that he asked<lb></lb>
the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1005-2">George Clarke</rs>
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what Mark was upon the Skin & when<lb></lb>
he informed thereof he answered that he thought the<lb></lb>
same was his Masters Sheep and desired him to sell &<lb></lb>
make the best. he cod. of it that he afterwards went &<lb></lb>
looked at the Skin & beleives the Mark thereon to be the<lb></lb>
same he marks his Sheep with at the Time he buys them<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo613">Smithfield</rs>
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for himself saith that being a<lb></lb>
Constable he was applyed to by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1006-2">George Clarke</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ192">Butcher</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to take the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1006-3">William Layton</rs>
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into Custody upon<lb></lb>
suspicion of stealing a Sheep the Property of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1006-4">Robert<lb></lb>
French</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45036_occ193">Butcher</rs>
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in Little Charlotte Street <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo614">Rathbone<lb></lb>
Place</rs>
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& that on Tuesday the 18th. Day of August Instant<lb></lb>
he took him in the Shop of the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1006-5">George Clarke</rs>
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and that<lb></lb>
the Skin now produced he has compared with other<lb></lb>
Sheep of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1006-6">Robert French</rs>
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& exactly bears the<lb></lb>
same Mark</p>
<p n="1007">Taken the Day and Year<lb></lb>
before mentioned before<lb></lb>
me}</p>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1009-2">George Clark</rs>
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<p n="1010">Mark<lb></lb>
The<figure rend="mark"></figure>
of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1010-1">George Collins</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1011-2">William Cook</rs>
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