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<p n="12">himself further Saith that about eleven O Clock in the<lb></lb>
prenoon on the said Sixteenth day of December his Survey<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
another Couch of Corn which had been sleeped for the Making<lb></lb>
thereof into Matt in the second house of the sd & Dt that he found it<lb></lb>
Mary hand close and Compact that he guaged the Corn<lb></lb>
therein and found it to contain only 134 Bushells Shalf <obscured></obscured>
was<del>133 Bucketter a</del>
<lb></lb>
Nine lenths of a Buchells that about nine O Clock the<lb></lb>
proceeding evening he this Deponent had guaged the same<lb></lb>
Couch of Corn and found it then to contain 138 Buchells<lb></lb>
and 2 tenths of a Bushell of Corn that he is very<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
that it must have been brad an and pressed down<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
there two guage as it guaged 12 Bushells less than<lb></lb>
the guaged it an the evening before where as of ought<lb></lb>
12 bushells less than the Officers Gage of the same Corn on the Custom the<lb></lb>
Evening before whereas it on gold in<lb></lb>
fairness to have increased that the whole quantity of<lb></lb>
or Grain in the said two Couches<obscured></obscured>
to 168 D<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
And the said Abraham Ayton being now have called<lb></lb>
upon by in the said Justices for his defence in the<lb></lb>
premises and together came to us Why he should not<lb></lb>
he Convicted of the premises above laid to his charged<lb></lb>
thereupon an the same day and Year last aforesaid<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45038_geo20">Hammersmith</rs>
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afsd in the County aforesaid he<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45038_n12-2">Abraham Ayton</rs>
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Praduceth to and before<lb></lb>
in the said Justices one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45038_n12-3">William Stacey</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45038_occ26">Servant</rs>
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of him<lb></lb>
the said Abraham Ayton and also a Credible Witness in this<lb></lb>
behalf an the part of the said Abraham Ayton And the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45038_n12-4">William Stacey</rs>
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an his Corporal Oath an the Holy wangeles to<lb></lb>
of God now here administered where by us the said<lb></lb>
Justices<obscured></obscured>
the said Justices having Competent<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and Authority to administer such Oath to him in this<lb></lb>
behalf Deposeth and Saith in the premises as follows<lb></lb>
Street he is a Servant to the Defendant who is a Mass</p>
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