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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
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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
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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.
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Prosecutor. I am sure they are mine.
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Prisoner's Defence. I hope master will recommend me to mercy.
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, aged 49,
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Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. Recorder.
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