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Indictment but who was not examined before the
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said Jury but waited so to be, then went out of the
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at the Outward Door of the Hall And the said
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enquired of a person there what time he thought
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the Trial would come on the next day who Informed
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Simms and this Deponent the Eleven
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or twelve O'Clock would be time enough for this
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Mary Lukup and Susannah Cobides were both Acquitted
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And further Saith that had it not been for such
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Information he received the Night before of his
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Attending the Court the next day he certainly
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would have Attended sooner As this Deponents as
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well as his Masters intention was to have Prosecuted
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them to the utmost they thinking them to be very bad
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Girls and very proper Objects to be Punished.
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Sworn in Court at
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