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<note>[Text unreadable in original.]</note> Stays, and then they went and took her, and found the Child in a dreadful Fright, who told them, she
<note>[Text unreadable in original.]</note> threatn'd to throw her in a Pond, if she cry'd. This was confirm'd by the other Evidence; and the Prisoner having nothing to say against so plain a Proof, was found
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