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feloniously stealing, on the <rs id="t18111030-90-cd498" type="crimeDate">8th of October</rs>
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, eight pound weight of pewter, value 7 s. </rs>
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, No. 15, Brown's Buildings, the prisoner was my <rs id="t18111030-90-deflabel500" type="occupation">journeyman</rs>
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. I am the matron of the workhouse of the liberty of the Old Artillery Ground. On the 5th of October I sent a person in the workhouse to put a wheel in the cupboard; her name is <rs type="persName" id="t18111030-90-person767"> <interp inst="t18111030-90-person767" type="role" value=""></interp>
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, she came back and said she found something in the cupboard, I went with her, she took out two pewter bottoms for pint pots, I took a candle and found twenty-one bottoms for quarts and pints tied up in a handkerchief; the prisoner came to me on the 6th, and asked me if I had not taken something out of the cupboard, and for Christ's sake to pardon him, I told him it was out of my power, it laid to his master to pardon him. The prisoner was a <rs id="t18111030-90-deflabel501" type="occupation">pauper</rs>
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in the workhouse, and worked for Mr. Walker.</p>
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. I am in the workhouse. I was sent to the cupboard with a wheel, I found the pewter bottoms, I looked at them and put them in again, I went and informed my mistress.</p>
<p>Prosecutor. I am sure they are mine.</p>
<p>Prisoner's Defence. I hope master will recommend me to mercy.</p>
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GUILTY </rs>
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Confined One Year in the House of Correction </rs>
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whipped in Jail </rs>
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<p>Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. Recorder.</p>
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