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that in the forenoon
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. That said Wagg then went away promising
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four or five days afterwards said Wagg came again in Company
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to pay for the Same and said Burgess paid
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was to call the day after for the Probate. That the next day being
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a Holiday at the Public Office, nothing could be done. That on
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the Saturday following they again came when they were informed
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that an Administration had been granted to the Month of the
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said
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Charles Lightowler
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. That the said Will was delivered by
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