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. The Prosecutors servant deposed, That he sitting in his Masters Coach, fell a sleep, and in the mean time the Prisoner came and snatch'd the seat out of the Coach, which waking him, he pursued the Prisoner, who was seen to throw the Cushion away. The Prisoner pretended that he was going along and stumbled over it and took it up; but the Jury would not believe him, but found him
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