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1777. Sessions. [Monday] Dec. 8th

Mackenzie to deliver those Cloths to Mr. Du Boisson, and I did so. He shew’d me, before he saw the Cloths, marks that he said were on them.

The prisoner was called upon to make his defence.

Peter Romney. The prisoner.
A box was delivered to me by a Mr. Dennis to take care of: it was directed to General Clavering per Houghton: Mr. Dennis told me it was to have been sent by a Miss Brown, who came from the North of England [Mem: he means a lovely squinting girl, who is a relation of old Mrs. Chambers, my brother Chambers’s mother, who comes from Newcastle or thereabout] and that if I met her I was to give it her, else I was to deliver it to General Clavering. Mr. Dennis told me it contained two Riding Hats for Ladies. During the Voyage Mr. Shearman asked me, if I knew anything of this box. I said I had such a box, but I did not know how it came into his chest. I now suppose, Mr. Shearman and I, being very intimate during the former part of the voyage, he must have taken it into his chest for.
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