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on
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in order to be put into a Hospital
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the Deced came in a Boat from Sheerness
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and in a Hackney
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Spoke several times in the Coach, and
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the last time at Charring Cross, when the
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Deced's Colour Altered; and Deced appeared
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Mr. Grove's House in
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, That
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