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that he, together with twenty other persons and more, did, unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously, assemble, on the
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, to the disturbance of the publick peace, and did begin to demolish and pull down the dwelling house of
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(The counsel for the crown informed the court that they had but one witness whose testimoney could affect the prisoner, and that witness's credit having been impeached on a former trial, they would not produce him in support of this indictment.)
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