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Witness gave me several blows on my breast. When they were beating me they said, do you confess you did this business, that you stole the Company’s Goods. Though I denied they kept beating me, and desiring me to confess this fact, and threatening if I did not I should be beaten more: And they said you must confess you open’d the bales and took the [ILL] Cloth I told them, if you can produce me any Cloth
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