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<p n="187">The Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n187-1">Nicholas Parker</rs>
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taken before<lb></lb>
me this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15026_date12">thirteenth day of May 1715</rs>
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<p n="188">This Examt. sayeth that on ye. 30th. day of April last having<lb></lb>
occasion to goe on board the Parker Frigott lying at Stone<lb></lb>
Scain near Ratcliff sent one Rice to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo106">Swan Tavern<lb></lb>
in Cornhill</rs>
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to enquire for Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n188-1">Henry Lister</rs>
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and to know<lb></lb>
whether he would goe with this Examt. to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo107">Gravesend</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
next day as was agreed on between the said Lister & this<lb></lb>
Examt. and to tent the said Lister that this Examt. was gone<lb></lb>
on board the said Parker Grigor And sayeth that about 7 or<lb></lb>
8 of the clerk that afternoon returning in a boat the said<lb></lb>
Rice Lister & <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n188-3">Edward Newton</rs>
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then in a Boat on ye. Thames<lb></lb>
met this Examt. and kept company with this Examts. boat<lb></lb>
till they and this Examt. all pid on Shoat near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo108">Billingsgate</rs>
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<lb></lb>
from whence they & this Examt. went to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo109">Dog Tavern</rs>
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<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15026_geo110">Billingsgate</rs>
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and for severall hours they all sate in the<lb></lb>
Kitchen of ye. sd. Tavern And saith that he did not know<lb></lb>
or heard that the said Newton and any mony or any<lb></lb>
bagg till sometime after this Examt. was brought before<lb></lb>
the Ld. Mayor and by him discharged when the sd. Rice<lb></lb>
& this Examt. were charged with picking the said Newtons<lb></lb>
pocket the said Rice did own that when he & the sd. Newton<lb></lb>
were at the Swan Tavern the said Rice saw the said<lb></lb>
Newton change a Pistale which he took out of a Bagg<lb></lb>
But this Examt. saith that he never saw any of the said<lb></lb>
Newtons mony or his bagg Nor did this Examt. know how ye.<lb></lb>
said Rice came by the said Newtons porket Book but<lb></lb>
did See a pocket book in his hand And saith that he never<lb></lb>
said any thing of the said Newtons being ye. Son of a<lb></lb>
Mathematician this Examt. knowing him to be otherwise<lb></lb>
And that when the said Newton charged this Examt. as<lb></lb>
aforesaid he unbutten'd his Coate & constroate & offered<lb></lb>
himself to be searched</p>
<p n="189">Jur coram<lb></lb>
T Parker</p>
<p n="190"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15026_n190-1">Nichos. Parker</rs>
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