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Informations of Witnesses taken this Sixteenth
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Liberty and County, before
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within the Liberty of Westmr. where his wife also lodged (being one the first floor) Say's
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that he went to Bed about one O'Clock, and was alarmed in
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about half an hour, by Mrs. Aickin, (who was a lodger in the
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her Oath saith, that Dept
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being in her own House on Friday Night last, was there
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up and on going into the Street observed that her two pair of
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& Sarah Towers, lodged in the back room on
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his Wife and
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his Daughter lodged in the Foreroom on the
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Charles and Sarah, went up Stairs into their Room about
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ten O'Clock on friday Night, Says that she believes said
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