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Parish of
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of September 1753.
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Who being upon oath says that upon Tuesday the 28th day Augt. last
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she was Standing at her Master house in Upper Brook Street
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about eight in the Morning that she then saw a
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Gentlewoman
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pass by who Sight often and repeated the words & good
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god upon which this Informant asked the said Gentleman
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what was the Matter and received for answer that there
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was a Fellow who had knockt down a Boy and beat him
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nay had almost killd him I beleive the villian has
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Murdered him by this time upon which this Informt.
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presently afterwards went down into the Park and
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there
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within twenty yards of
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saw a Boy who appears to have been due
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who lately Died in
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lying on his
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face, says that he lay under a Waldnutt Tree that the
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ground on which he lay was a Dusty foot path
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that there was niether stone nor Stump of Tree nor
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anything Else which Appeared likely to hurt him
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near him, that she afterwards lock'd in at the
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widow of the Keepers house and there saw the
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