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(a Black) was indicted for
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last, one pair of linen sheets, value 2 s. one shirt, value 10 d. one pair of nankeen breeches, value 12 d. one shift, value 12 d. and two pair of cotton stockings, value 12 d.
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The clothes were hanging in the garden, and the prisoner was found behind some laylock trees upon the linen.
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