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County aforesaid that on Wednesday night the 24th of
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September instant about Eleven o Clock she was
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Walking along the aforesaid Flemisk Church Yard
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when she was feloniously Assaulted by five or
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her down and feloniously took and Carried away
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her cap and tore her Wearing Apparel to pieces
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her as aforesaid was Frances Johnston
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had by force been rescued from them and taken
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to the House of One
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who lives next
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call her
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Rip her bloody entrails out
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Taken And Sworn before me
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the 25th. of September 1783
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