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Who being upon Oath says that on Tuesday the 15th. instant
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about 10 oClock in the Evening she was coming up Witch Street
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under her Arm when she was met by a Woman (whose
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of And further this Informant says that the bundle of
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Stockings now Produced are the same which was Feloniously
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