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:A\(o Netvccmh and myfelf broke open a; Houfe nsai"
Dumb-Al/ey, VVefiminfier, where I had lodg'd fonie
lime before, from wiience we took about 35 / in
Money, befides Gold Rings, SnufF-Boxes, and other
Things of Value ; the Woman of the Houfe oiFering to
call oat for Afhflance, Nenvctimh fwore he would flioot
her Brains out if /he offer'd to fpeak or llJr; this Rob-
bery we the ealier effeded, by Reafoii cj rny having
lodged in the Houfe about fix Months before, fo knew
how the fame was ftuated, and we were pretty well af-
fured of finding fomething of Value therein, as know-
ing the Miflrefs thereof ufed to take in Pawns or Pled-
fes and to lend Money thereon ; the Rings, Snuff-boxes,
ic. we fold to our Friend Glannifter for 22 /.
Another Burglary I committed in Company with
WiUiam Field wtiA jahn Brooks, in breaking open a Shop
in Cranhourn- Alky near Leicejier-Fields, from whence we
took a large Quantity of Bermudas Hats, to the Value
of 20/. or better, but we fold them to our Friend
Glannifier for IO /.
I and one R. Shefpard and Thompfon, broke op?n a
Houfe at Kiiv-Green, where we got the Value of 250/.
in Money and Plate.
Alfo myfelf, Benjamin Williams and Thomas Welling,
fet out upon an Expedition to Brijiol, where one of the
ijrlt Fafts we committed there was, in this manner,
going one Day about iz o'Clock at Noon by a Gentle-
liian's Houfe, and feeing thro' the Window the Cloth lay
for Dinner,- and no body in the i-ioom,. v/e lifted up the
Latch of the Door, lyUiiams went in, and faw a little
Black Boy playing in the Yard; nothwithltanding which
he ftep'd into the Dining-Room, where was a confide-
rable Quantity of Plate on the Table,, and Side-Board,
ready fet out for Dinner, and handed the fame to Wel-
ling^ and me, with which we all went off, and upon our
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