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produced which are the same that were so stolen out
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Seven and Eight o' Clock this Evening come out
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Say that he has got
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The said
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Machachlan running
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along he this Informant Stopped him and took
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Sarah Armstrong
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William Dedear.
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Sworn before me the 31st.
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