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The Voluntary Examination of
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to Wm. Special a Dustman who says that last Thursday
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morning Examinant and his master were with his Master's
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calling for Dust. Says a Young
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, it had two Great Bow Windows &
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was opposite Saint Thomas's Gates. Says he and his Master
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shewed then
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some dust in the Cellar, in a Cupboard there near the bottom
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of the Stairs-Says as Examt. was going up with the last
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Basket from that place the same
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told his
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he went up and bro't down a Candle and removed two boards
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from other dust in the corner of the Cellar & went up Stairs
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at this place he found a Child in the sh
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pinned at
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in a Cloth, and he told Examt. of it, and
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asked
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what they should do with it, & Examt answered what they
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had better take it home and make inquiry about it when
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they had done dusting-Says they then went to home, and
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shot the rubbish out of the Cart, and his Master took
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up the Child and carried it into the Stable-Says they
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