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last, several articles of linen, value 3 l. </rs>
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; I live in <rs type="placeName" id="t17901027-28-crimeloc152">Vineyard-Gardens, Cold-Bath-Fields</rs>
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; on the 6th of April I missed the things in the indictment; they were hanging up to dry, about four; at eight I went to take them in; I had seen them there ten minutes before; the articles were some of them gone; the things were hung upon lines, which were taken away also; the garden was inclosed with pales; my house is a timber house.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I was convicted in May sessions of felony; I have since obtained his Majesty's pardon.</p>
<p>(The pardon acknowledged, having been read before.</p>
<p>You have been for some time acquainted with the two prisoners? - Yes.</p>
<p>You have been engaged with them in acts of several robberies and felonies? - Yes.</p>
<p>Among the rest, did you, in company with them, or either of them, steal any linen? - Yes; I took them from a laundery, nearly opposite the Vineyard publick-house, Vineyard-Garden, Cold-bath-fields.</p>
<p>Was it dry or wet? - Wet.</p>
<p>Where was it, when you took it? - Hanging on some lines in the garden, which was fenced with high wooden pales, boarded round, nine or ten feet high; <rs type="persName" id="t17901027-28-person389"> <interp inst="t17901027-28-person389" type="role" value=""></interp>
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got over the top of the pales, by my assistance, and opened the door of the garden; he let me in, and me and Lowe cut the lines down; and Jobbins, and Lowe and me carried parcels to a saw-pit, till we had almost cleared the garden; the things was tied up in a sheet, which was part of the property; we relieved each other, and carried them to the corner of Leather-lane; we then left them in the care of Jobbins, while Lowe went to Holborn, and fetched a coach; the things in the street were put into the coach; the two prisoners got into the coach, and I rode on the box; the coach was ordered to be drove to the end of Houndsditch, opposite Bishopsgate-church; then I got off the box, and went to Mrs. Samuel's, in Still-alley, and told her we had some things in a coach at the end of Houndsditch; she came along with me to the coach, and desired me to follow her with the coach; I got up again, and the coach went to the end of Bishopsgate-street, to a court; and the linen was taken out, and carried by me into a Jewess's house; Jobbins went with me; Lowe stood at the door: we got there a little after ten o'clock; the property was untied, and looked over by Mrs. Samuel, and the Jew who belongs to the house; and at length she bought them; she gave fifteen shillings that night, and two shillings the next day.</p>
<p>Mr. Knowlys, Prisoner's Counsel. You are the same man that was examined on Saturday? - Yes.</p>
<p>You then told us, I believe, that besides having burnt and attempted to burn houses, you have for two years been a thief? - Yes.</p>
<p>How long have you known Samuel and his wife? - Since last April.</p>
<p>Were they the persons to whom you generally conveyed your plunder, to dispose of? - Yes.</p>
<p>Have you any doubt that they knew perfectly well how these goods were come at? - I cannot say what they thought; I suppose they must think so.</p>
<p>To whose house did you convey those things? - They were strangers to me.</p>
<p>Did you never hear their names? - Not to my recollection.</p>
<p>Court. Were there more than one person, besides Mrs. Samuel? - There was a Jew man and his wife, who was in bed.</p>
<p>When you took your plunder to Samuel's, who took it in, him or his wife? - Sometimes one, and sometimes the other.</p>
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ago; I do not recollect the time: one Friday evening, before I was going to bed, somebody knocked at my door; and I asked who was there? he answered, Flindall; I opened the door; Flindall came in, and said, I have something for you; and I went with him to Bishopsgate-street; there was a coach by Bishopsgate-church, and Flindall got on the coach-box, and drove to a court in Bishopsgate-street; I desired him to let the coach follow me there; the prisoners Lowe and Jobbins were then in the coach; Flindall got off the box, and brought the things into a house in the court, one of our folks's houses, called Moses; Jobbins and Lowe were there; Jobbins came in, and Lowe staid without; the articles were sheets and petticoats, towels, table-cloths, and several other articles of linen; they were wet; I bought them for fifteen shillings; and I believe I gave them two shillings the next morning; the things were dried and sold, except a few old towels and a bit of cloth, which I delivered up to <rs type="persName" id="t17901027-28-person391"> <interp inst="t17901027-28-person391" type="role" value=""></interp>
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; they never were out of my custody till then, excepting that a basket cloth had been pawned, wrapping up a coat of my husband's; Hardy went to the pawnbroker's, and redeemed it; I am very sure it is one of the things I bought of the prisoners.</p>
<p>You have occasionally bought several things not honestly come by? - Yes, for seven or eight months.</p>
<p>Mr. Lawes. I think you say, on Friday evening, when somebody knocked at your door, the answer was, Flindall? - Yes.</p>
<p>Now, from thence I collect, that you knew him very well before? - Yes.</p>
<p>How long had you known him before? - I cannot recollect; no great while before.</p>
<p>How often had you dealt with him before? - I have bought things of him before.</p>
<p>Have you not, upon your oath, bought goods frequently of him before? - I have, but not frequently.</p>
<p>Now, you are serious in that answer, are you? - If he had any thing, I bought it.</p>
<p>Whenever you did buy things of him, did not you know they were dishonestly come by? - Yes, Sir, I must know that they were not come honestly by.</p>
<p>What led you to this person of the name of Moses? - Because it was a light night; I was afraid of carrying them to my own place, and therefore I carried them to that place.</p>
<p>What is his real name? - His name is Moses; that is all I know of him.</p>
<p>Moses what? - I do not know.</p>
<p>How long have you known him? - About a twelvemonth; he lives in an alley, but I do not know the name of it; I know the way to it; it is an alley in Bishopsgate-street.</p>
<p>Is there any number on the houses? - I never looked for the number.</p>
<p>Had he lived there all the time you knew him? - I knew him by crying old clothes about the streets; and he is a dealer; that is the way I knew him.</p>
<p>Was he not the same sort of dealer that you and your husband were? - No.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>Mr. Garrow. You are a constable? - Yes: these things I received from Mrs. Samuel, at her house.</p>
<p>That night you went to the pawnbroker's for one of the articles? - No, I did not: Lucy went there; this is the cloth I had from Lucy.</p>
<p>- TOLLEY sworn.</p>
<p>(Deposed to the basket cloth by a hole in the middle.) These two towels are all my property; they were stolen from my garden.</p>
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sworn.</p>
<p>I was servant to Mrs. Tolley at the time she lost her linen; these are my mistress's property.</p>
<p>Prisoner Lowe. I assure you I was not there. When that basket cloth was first examined before Alderman Skinner, there was no hole in the cloth, and but two towels; and Mrs. Tolley said they belonged to another gentlewoman; I never saw the things before I saw them at Alderman Skinner's.</p>
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Prisoner Jobbins. I wish to leave it to my counsel.</p>
<p>The prisoners counsel referred to the character before given by the witnesses for the prisoners, on the trial for arson.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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<p>Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.</p>
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