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thief and struck me while his father held me by the hair.
Mr. Harvey the deft then ordered his servants to beat me. He said Mar; and they immediately obeyed his orders. They were I think 8 or 10 in number, & they beat me with their sticks. I cannot tell how many struck me.
Some of them were such as this, [taking up the smaller of two sticks that lay on the table.]
They dragged me out of the house & then a man who was standing near the door, ready to receive me, gave me a blow on the back of the neck with this Club