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last the Attended this Honorable Court and preferred an Indictment
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against the said Dependant for Stealing two tea Spoons this
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Deponents Property and Saith he fully meant and intended
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this forenoon and Expected he should have been in time so to
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much fatigued which was the Sole Cause of his not Attending this
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