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Who Saith That about one o'Clock in the morning of the sixth
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there wee four, when the Prisoner
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now under Examination
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said to this Informant you old Irish Bagger what are You
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going to give us to drink or towards the Bonfire, Informant
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Hold them he had no money and if he had the Bonfire was
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nearly out and that he had but one farthing about him
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them One of the men said search the Old Bagger and
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and his
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that the money was in his HandKerchief and immediatly
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now under Examination took his
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of it and then struck this Informant a violent blow
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which Knocked him down to the Ground then Informant
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got up and Hollowed out Murder and then the Prisoner
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Cherry again struck this Informant on the Nose and
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called him an Irish Bagger and then they all ran away
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towards Haggeston and this Informant came on thro
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Taken and Sworn the
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day and Year abovesaid
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