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on Oath saith, that on Thursday Afternoon last,
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under Examination, came to the Shop of him this
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Informant, and cheapened several Pieces of Baron and had
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them weighedSays, that before this time, he
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had cut the Bacon now produced, into two Pieces,
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does not know, that the Prisoner had taken some
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putting the Prisoners Cloak aside, he saw the
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that he took the Bacon from her, and she
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acknowledged to have stolen it, fell upon her
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William Gill
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