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in the year aforesaid being employed in the fifth story in a certain ware house belonging to
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down to and upon the ground and stone payement there by means whereof the said Robert Behoo
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did then and there receive divers mortal bruises and fractures in and upon the head legs and
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aforesaid do say that the said Robert Behoo in manner and by the means aforesaid casually and
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