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being on Oath saith that on Wednesday the seventh day of
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this instant June he this Informant saw many Persons
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concerned in a Riot in the said Street, when the Goods
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Furniture and part of the Dwelling House of Robert
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the Prisoner
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now under Examination with a blue Cockade in his Hat
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that he was one of the Persons concerned in such Riot
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that he went about the Street Collecting money that he
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saw said Pateman sitting upon Mr.
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after they were brought into the Street & put in a pill
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that he afterwards, saw him assist in loading the Carts with the
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same Goods, which were carried away into
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