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were indicted, the first for <rs id="t17780916-66-off345" type="offenceDescription"> <interp inst="t17780916-66-off345" type="offenceCategory" value="theft"></interp>
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stealing 26 lb. weight of tea, value 7 l. </rs>
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receiving the above goods, well knowing them to have been stolen </rs>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am servant to a Mr. Territ who lives at London-wall. On the 24th of July I carried a large parcel to the <rs type="placeName" id="t17780916-66-crimeloc348">Oxford-arms in Warwick-lane</rs>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am book-keeper at the Oxford-arms. I received a truss from Hughes to go to Banbury; I did not know what the contents of it were.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I am engine keeper of St. Andrew's Holbourn. On the 26th of July I saw the prisoner with a bundle under his arm in Union-court, Holbourn; he delivered it to <rs type="persName" id="t17780916-66-person554"> <interp inst="t17780916-66-person554" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, the bundle was broke, and the tea running out; she put it in her apron, then they parted; she went up Snow-hill, I followed her and got a constable, and she was apprehended with the bundle upon her head; this is the bundle.</p>
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Benjamin Hopps <interp inst="t17780916-66-person555" type="surname" value="Hopps"></interp>
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, the servant of Mr. Terret.)</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I took Chalkley; she said she was to carry the parcel to Smithfield; upon advertising it I found out the owner of it.</p>
<p>PEDLEY's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>I never saw the tea nor the woman till I was taken before the alderman.</p>
<p>CHALKLEY's DEFENCE.</p>
<p>Going along I met this man; he asked me to carry the parcel for him to the pitching place in Smithfield, he was to pay me for it; he bid me say before the alderman that I knew nothing of it.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the London Jury before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.</p>
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