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the 14th. day of May instant at about the hour of
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Six of the Clock in the Morning He went into a necessary
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in the said County. which necessary belongs to a Public
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House in which this Informant Lodges that he there
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by the Noise of a Bag with a quantity of Smiths Tools-
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this Informants asking them where they had got the
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said bag and Tools they answered him that they
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had found it and was going to sell it This
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Informant then desired them to take it away and
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not leave it there which they did and he this
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Informant went to sleep again and on his awaking
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found that the bag & Tools was again brought back
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and a man in the Necessary who told this Informant
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Taken & Sworn before me
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the Day and Year first-
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