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acting in and for the said County
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this 15th day of March 1783
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Who being upon Oath say and First the said
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for himself Saith that in the Night of Monday the 10th
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day of March Instant between the Hours of twelve
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aforesaid in Company with John Nisan and
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this Informant and the others that he had seen
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on Man throw a Bundle from off his Back into the Fields adjoining
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on his Examining it he had found it to be Yarn
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Jane Warwicks hall at
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Informant and the said
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went
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another way in Order to Detect the Thieves, That
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he
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