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, to whom he himself was Apprentice, (whose House adjoined to the Prosecutor's) used to come to him, and had enticed him to assist him in robbing the Prosecutor, and that he did let him into his Master's Cellar, where they pull'd down Part of a Brick-Wall, and the Prisoner got into the Counting-house of the Prosecutor, and got some Money, what he could not tell, but he gave him some of it.
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