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<p n="2">THE TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BEHAVIOUR AND CONFESSION OF <rs type="persName" id="OA16860602_n2-1">Alice Millikin</rs>
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, Who was Burnt in <rs type="placeName" id="OA16860602_geo1">SMITHFIELD</rs>
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On <rs type="date" id="OA16860602_date2">Wednesday the 2d. of June, 1686</rs>
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. For HIGH-TREASON, in Clipping the Kings Coin.</p>
<p n="3">VEry many are the Instances of this sort of Crime; yet sad it is to observe that nothing can deter, those who exercise themselves in this sort of Wickedness.</p>
<p n="4">Yet, if rightly considered, it is one of the most abominable Practices. For it is not only a great dishonour to His Most Sacred Majesty and a perverse Abuse of his Mercy and Clemency, bestowed on some Offenders of this kind; but likewise the Community may suffer much prejudice by it, although the greatest Mischief Redounds to the persons themselves, who Diminish the full Weight of His Majesties Coin: This Crime exposing them to an Ignominous Death, through a covetous desire, to satisfie their Excess in a sinful Course of Life, whereupon, that Saying of Solomon is visited, That Gain gotten by Deceit, is a Vanity tossed too and fro, by them who seek Death: And that the Treasures of Wickedness profit nothings, though they bring not the fears of the Unjust presently upon them.</p>
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