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lower Thames Street
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and Hempen
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Sack Containing about Fifty Six Pounds of Onion
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the said
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Joseph
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that last Night the person now present who calls
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John Arrow
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between them he this
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the
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and paid him
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Seven Shillings for the same That the said John
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Arrow left the Sack now produced containing the
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said Seed was to call for the same
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that
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the Morning of
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this Day This Informa
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tion
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nts further saith that
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as soon as he saw his Master he told him what
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he had done who
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suspecting the
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same had
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said Sack and Seed had
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