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feloniously stealing six Yards of Canvas, and ten Yards of Duck </rs>
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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.</p>
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acquitted </rs>
the Prisoner, and the Court being of Opinion it was a malicious Prosecution, order'd her a Copy of her Indictment.</p>
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