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on Monday last the twenty seventh day of March now fast
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between four and five o'Clock in the afternoon this
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in hand up Barretts Court aforesaid and immediately
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on coming to the End of the Court this Deponent
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and deceased ran along the fool pavement in Wig more Street
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this Deponent who went faster than the
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shaw a Coach with two Horses coming down the Street
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the same way this Deponent and the
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had come way fast and therefore he endeavoured
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after him slipped down in the Road just as the
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Coach came to the Spot he was crossing and the
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