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, was indicted for a
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, by putting a lighted Candle to a Basket of Wooden Chips
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) deposed, that the Night aforesaid his Wife and Children having been gone to Bed about an Hour before, and none up in the House but the Prisoner and himself, he bid him draw him a little Beer, and while he was gone for it the Watchman knock at the Door for a Pipe, who spying a Light in the Cellar through the Cracks in the Floor, told him (the Prosecutor) of it; whereupon he went down and found a piece of Candle lighted put to the Chips in the Basket, which had set them on Fire, but it being just done he put it out with a Pint of Water; that the Prisoner had no occasion to go by or near the Basket of Chips for the Drink. The Watchman confirm'd the former Evidence, and the Prisoner's Confession before the Justice was read in Court, wherein he owned the Fact, and said that three Men advised him to do it, and gave him three Guineas. The Prisoner upon his Tryal said he knew nothing of the matter, and that he confest it before the Justice for fear of being Whipt. But the Jury not believing him, found him
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Fined 40 s.
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to suffer One Month's Imprisonment
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