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THE Ordinary of NEWGATE'S ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, &c.
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BY virtue of the king's commission of the peace, oyer and terminer, and goal-delivery of Newgate, holden for the city of London and county of Middlesex, at
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in the Old Bailey
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Honourable William Bridgen
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; and others of his majesty's justices of oyer and terminer of the city of London, and goal-delivery of Newgate, &c. holden for the said city and county of Middlesex, on
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, in the 4th year of his majesty's reign,
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Jane Faulkner
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