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a ready Furnished Room in
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and Wife with the said Room which had
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on her Oath says The Looking Glass produced The Prisoner
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pawned on the 28th. Novr last for the sum of Three Shillings
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for the sum of Two Shillings one on the 6th. the other 8th of Decr last Says she doth not recollect if the said
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Before me
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had agreed to settle with him if he would
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pay her Two Shillings a Week and that
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Day and Year above mentioned before me
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