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Informations of Witnesses severally Taken and Acknowledged
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On the behalf of Our Sovereign Lord the King the Eleventh day
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of December in the Year of Our Lord 1766 and in the Seventh
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Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lords King George the Third
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by the Grace of God of Great Britain Etc-before
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Deceased about three MonthsThat the Deceased was about ten Years old & was an
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Apprentice to
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That Collins had the Deceased out of
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and had
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forty Shillings with her as he Debs.That Informants Warehouse Lies
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backwards And about three Months ago he heard the Cries of some
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Person And upon Looking to find where the Voice Came from he
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found it to be the Deceased who was then in a Milberry
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Free in Collins's YardThat there was Collins at the
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bottom of the Tree And there was a Man in the Tree (who he
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knows not) above the Deceased and he was fashing a Cord to
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One of the BranchesThat he thinks the Man was three or four
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Yards above the DeceasedThat Informant Called to Collins
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and Askd' her is she was going to Murder the Deceased And
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the Man in the Free Answered that he woud hang them all
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for so much a Piece But Collins made no Answer
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That then the Man and the Deceased Came out of the Free and
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went with Collins into her House and Informant did not see
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the Rope fastned to the Deceased Or anything at all done to her
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That Informant afterwards went into Collins house and askd'
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her what she meant by Attempting to Hang the Child
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That Collins Answered she was a Naughty Girl had stolen
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an Handkerchief and a Knife But wher. she said she
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did the Above to frighten her or what was her Answer
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Informant don't know That about five Weeks ago
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when Informant Came down One Morning he found the Deceased
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