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one of this
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Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said City Who,
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being upon Oath saith, that having at several different Times
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missed from his Depts in the Warehouse of the said Sun, sundry
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Sums of Money and having strong Suspicions that
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the Prisoner now under Examination, had taken them, he marked
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for several days all the Money deposited in his Desk says
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that this Morning about eight o'Clock he counted the Money and
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found there were thirty seven Guineas in Gold four half Crown
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Pieces, and twenty shillings in Silver in his said Desk says that
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in about ten Minutes the Prisoner went into the Warehouse with a
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Key that suspecting the Prisoner had stolen some of the Money, he
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went into the Warehouse about twenty Minutes after, when the
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was come from thence, and went immediately to the Desk
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as aforesaid and missed one Guinea and an half Gown Piece says
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the instantly went to his Master
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him of the Robbery Says that the Prisoner was apprehended and
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and upon him were found a Guinea and an half Crown
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and this Informant is satisfied that the said Guinea and half
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brown, so found upon the Prisoner, and which are now produced
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were Part of the Money left in his Depts, and he believes that the Prisoner
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P Wordsworth
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London this
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