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 16th of June, Lamb let his comrades into the house, and they all went up to Mr Burton's room, armed with pistols, and entered undisturbed. Grace was posted at Burton's bedside, with positive orders to shoot him in case he awoke, Sheppard being engaged in opening the boxes and trunks in the meantime. It happened luckily for Mr Burton that he slept more soundly than usual that night, and the robbers succeeded in carrying off property to the amount of between two and three hundred pounds.

About this time Mr Kneebone, a woollen draper, near the New Church in the Strand, received a caution from the father of Anthony Lamb, that his house was intended to be broke open and robbed that very night. Mr Kneebone prepared for the event, ordered his servants to sit up, and gave directions, to the watchmen to keep a sharp look out. Thus the robbers were frustrated for the present, but a few weeks afterwards they succeeded in entering at the back of the house, and carried off above fifty pounds worth of property.

Within a week from the last-mentioned