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depos'd, That she being on Board the Deal Castle (of which the Prisoner's Husband is Boatswain ) the Prisoner's Husband put six Yards of Canvas into the Scuttle, and the Prisoner took it out, and carried it away; and that her Husband finding she had taken it, said, G - D - n the Woman, she will carry away the King's Ship if I will let her; and that she saw a Sheet made of the Duck hanging in her Yard.
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The Prisoner deny'd the Fact, call'd a great many of her Neighbours who gave her a good Character, and the Prosecutor a very ill one; that she was a quarrelsome, malicious
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Woman, whose common Usage was to threaten those whom she quarrelled with to swear Felony or Treason against them. The Jury
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the Prisoner, and the Court being of Opinion it was a malicious Prosecution, order'd her a Copy of her Indictment.
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