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It appeared, That the Prisoners, in Company with another Person, call'd for a Tankard of Beer, at the Prosecutor's House, and whilst the Servant went to fetch Change, after they call'd to pay, they ran away; but the Prosecutor getting some Information of them, search'd, and found them, and the Tankard, at an ill House in White-Horse-Alley, near Chick-Lane, the Jury found them
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[Transportation. See summary.]
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