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March 22
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, and lived in his house. The next morning there was missing twenty of them. Axford and the prisoner went and joyn'd for a pint of purl as usual; Axford chang'd a sixpence, the prisoner gave his penny to the landlord, who gave it to Axford as part of the change, one halfpenny of which was one of those mark'd ; upon which he was order'd by Mr. Prosser to put out all the halfpence he had in his pocket, amongst which there were found seventeen mark'd ones, produced in court and depos'd to.
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