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out of my right hand pocket. She went out to buy tea or sugar, and gave me my groat back. I was to be two pence. After that she poured out the liquor, and brought a cup to me. I took it for tea, but found it very nauseous. I said, this is either gin or annifeed. Drink it, Jemmy, says she, it will do you good. Then she asked me to walk up stairs; I did, but found myself very giddy
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and stupid; I had partly lost my senses: I wish'd myself out of the house; I said I would call at night. I did not lie down on the bed, I laid me on the floor, and immediately fell fast asleep; and while I was on the ground I felt somebody about my left-hand pocket: I was not asleep or awake, but stupid; I lay on my left side where the money was, and they rolled me on my right. The money that I lost was three guineas, bound up in a piece of white paper, and a ribbon bound over it and pinn'd.
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Q. You say that you was turn'd from your left side to your right side; can you tell who turn'd you?
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Hall. I cannot tell; I could not observe any particular person turn me; they were both together,
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; she was going down stairs; she went down stairs before I could recover; I told her she had robbed me; she then look'd much confused. I brought her up stairs again; Cayton was out of the house. I told
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