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4th. day of February last about six o' Clock in the Evening
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for somebody to bring one up but receiving no Answer she
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run down Stairs with it he got up directly and Pursued
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her but did not get sight of her, and in going down Stairs
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Pockets thereof he missed Six Shillings and six pence which
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further Saith that he is Possitive and Certain that the
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