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to Compleat the Parlour floors of a new House Situate at
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opposite the Assembly house, that at different times he hath worked
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there, that he worked at said house on Saturday last
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at which
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time he left there a quantity of tools which he had that day used.
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And this Informant further saith that the two hammers, one pair
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of Prichers, Pannel Saw, Carcase Saw & Case, Dividers lead Glue Pot and three
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Chissels now produced are his property and are the same tools he so left in said
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new house on Saturday last And the Said Joseph Boubear for himself
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Carpenter to work at said new house, that he worked at said house
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Yesterday and in the Evening when he left off work he locked all
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his own tools as well as his Masters, (that were in said house) in
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the Kitchen thereof And this Informant further saith that as he was
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giving to his Work this Morning to said house he was informed that
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his tools had been stolen, that when he went to
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he discovered that some person or Person had broke into the Same
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by Wrenching open the Kitchen Window
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that all the tools were
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taken away. And that the Plough plain Filister plain, two hammers
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Lead glue pot Tenant Saw, hand Saw, Compas Saw, four Chissels, Stock
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Gouge, Turkey Stone, two plough Irons, pair of Compasses Serew driver
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two bits and Punch now produced by the said
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this Informants property and were Feloniously Stolen and taken away
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from said New house And the said
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for himself says that
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