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in Company with others whom he doth not know Follow the other Informant
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, down the said Hill. Saith that having a
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Suspicion of them, he walked after them, and saw the Prisoner put this
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And the said Richard Carpenter Smith for
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Hours of eleven and twelve this Morning, he was pulled by the Coat by
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have hold of the Prisoner at the Bar, and a Silk
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Taken and sworn at the
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London the
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