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between four and five o Clock as he was standing near the Steps leading out
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pushed about and Some time afterwards exclaim
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immediately received several Blows in his face
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and was himself also robbed of two Shillings
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near this Informant and the said Dadley And
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further saith that he doth verily belive that the said
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