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<join result="offenceCrimeDate" targOrder="Y" targets="t16910527-29-off134 t16910527-29-cd136"/> last </rs>. The Prisoners came to all the Prosecutors and pretended that there was a Lady Dead who had left them Legacys, and Wheedled them to go to look after it, and the whilest Robbed their Houses; which was lookt upon as a very wicked Invention. The Man confest them all, and was found
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