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Informations taken this Twenty seventh
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Dept. was going to Work after Dinner, and on
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cry out,O God, he is down he is down
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upon which Dept. ran to the Deced, who
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was upon the Iron Rails before Lady Cliffords
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House, and two of the Iron Spiches in the
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