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a Broker in Cartle Street the greatest part of the above
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Stolen Goods.
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Jane ye. Wife of
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John Lee
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last she went into the said Betham's Lodgings and there found
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with a Poker Shovell
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and Tongs in her hands, Upon which this Informt. asked
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, what she was doing there, to which
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a Tryal And this Informt. says that at the time of taking
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