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the Prisoner upon the Leads
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Thomas Langdale
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person in
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manner that he this Examinant being then in the Lodging
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one pair of Stairs forwards
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peaceably desired the Prisoner to go down, which he refused
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to do, damming him and putting an Iron Crow or Iron Bar
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to his Brest and
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his
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in the Windows therewith, that examinant then
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him thro' and totally broke the Windows saying that it was
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a Pop is he House or had some thing of the kind that belonged
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to it and thereupon entered the Room and broke the Goods and
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came down Stairs and left the House with the Prisoner
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therein which was afterwards Burnt together with the Household
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Goods and Furniture that were therein
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Taken and Sworn the Day and
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year first above Written Before us}
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