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him hanging by his Neck by a Rope the other End
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thereof fastened or tied round a large Nail which
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had been drove into an up right price of Tuiber
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never the Stairs there, being terrified she ran up
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Men who were in the Tap
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went over the Way to Mr. Lucas an Apothecary
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who returned with the sd. two Man in a fee
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