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before me this 17th. day of August 1770
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Who being upon Oath says that about a Week ago one Mr. Constable of
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applied to this Informant and desired him to buy
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for him twenty Ounces of Sterling Silver and to allay it to the Value of
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four Shillings and six pence P ounce and to have it flatted to a
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Thickness of which the said Constable brought this Informant a
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Measure being of the thickness of a Shillings says that from the Manner of the said Application he
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suspects that the said Constable means to make use of the said Silver
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