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a Silver handle being the same
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(but now a prisoner in the Gate house
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at Westmr: confess'd to time that
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he took is & this Informt: on his
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maketh Oath that the aforesaid
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who called himself
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Evan Musgrave
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did on the 12th.
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day of Novr: insts. offer to sell him
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the aforesaid silver handle being
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of the value of Four shillings
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& that he stoped him
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Sworn before
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me the 15th day
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of Novr: 1748
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Jas. Fraser
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