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, was indicted for a capital offence; he was very unwilling to plead to the indictment, but at last pleaded not guilty, and his trial was put off till next sessions. He
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, for breaking open Mr. Smith's house in the Borough, on which trial (which is a very remarkable one) he owned himself perjured in his information before Sir
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. The trial is at length in the proceedings at the late assize, held at Croydon , for the county of Surry , published by M. Cooper in Pater-noster Row.
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