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Informations of Witnesses Severally taken
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Twenty seventh year of the Regin of our
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Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace
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of God of Great Britain France and Ireland
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Glazier being sworn and
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upon his Oath saith That on Thursday the Sixteenth day of
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November instant about the Hour of Six in the Evening
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in his Left Hand Coat Pockets upon which putting
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down his Left hand he seized a Mans hand which
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by the Cellar and insisted upon his
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going to some house to be searched and intended to
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carry him to some publick House for that purpose
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that at the moment of seizing him he saw him
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convey something to an Accomplied which he Deponent
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believes to have been his Pockett Book Deponent
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seeing some other Persons following and believing
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