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on proposed to her yesterday
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Morning to carry a Letter now ford need to the Rt. Honble The
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Marquis of Carnarsan at
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that the Marquis was a Sodomite and that she would blow him
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if he did not give him some Money says the said Preston
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promised this Informt. to give her a Guinea if she got any Money
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by delivering the aforesaid Letter and that she carried the
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as aforesaid farther saith that she is not the said Preston's
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to deliver the same says that on the servant's at the Marquis's
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refusing to take in the Letter said Preston went back to a Public'k
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House and Wrote another Letter says that the Letter which
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She carried was read before her and Mr. Brand her Landlady
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before she Preston and Williams set out of Town for
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