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 a snuff-box, rings, watches, and goods to a considerable amount.

And now Jack resolved to appear like a gentleman among his old friends and acquaintances. He strutted about in a fine suit of black, a light tie wig, and a ruffled shirt, with a silver hilted sword by his side, a diamond ring on his finger, with a gold watch in his pocket, notwithstanding a diligent search being made after him. On the 31st of October he dined with two women named Cocks and Keys, at a public-house in Newgate Street, where they were very merry together. About four in the afternoon they took a coach and drawing up the windows passed through Newgate, which was then similar to Temple-bar, and thence to the Sheers ale-house in May-pole Alley, Clare Market, where in the evening he sent for his mother, and treated her with some brandy. As she knew the danger he was in, she advised him to take care of himself, and keep out of the way, but Jack had been drinking pretty hard, and was too valiant to fear any thing; he therfore left his mother, and strolled about in the neighbourhood till about 12 o'clock, when he