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of the Prisoners therein being Sarah Mc. Cormick by the name and description of Sarah
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then and there depending against her by a Jury of the Country duly taken and Sworn
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between our said Lord the King and the said Sarah Mc. Cormick in that behalf for
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that she the said Sarah Mc. Cormick on the Eighteenth day of August in the twenty Seventh
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in the peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being
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feloniously did make an Assault and him the said Thomas in bodily fear and dager
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of the Monies of the said Thomas from the person and against the will of the said Thomas
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in the Kings Highway aforesaid then and there feloniously and Violently did Steal take
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and carry away against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity
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now here Sworn and Charged to inquire
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for our said Lord the King for the Body of the said
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upon their said Oath further
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present That at and upon the said Trial it then and there became and was a material Question
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whether in the Evening of the Eighteenth day of August in the Twenty Seventh Year
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aforesaid Simon Carney came into the Dwelling House of him the said
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in the Parish of Saint
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Bartholomew the Great in the
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aforesaid while
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the said
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