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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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<title>A</title>
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<body bgcolor="#FFFAFA" text="#330000">
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<h1>The Letter A</h1>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ABRAM</h2>
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<p>Naked, or having scarce
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Cloaths enough to hide Nakedness.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ABRAM-COVE</h2>
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<p>a lusty Rogue,
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with hardly any Cloaths on his
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Back: a Tatterdemallion.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ABRAM-MEN</h2>
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<p>otherwise called
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<i class="eg">Toms of Bedlam</i>, shabby Beggars, patched
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and trick'd up with Ribbons, Red-Tape,
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Fox-tails, Rags of various Colours;
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pretending to be besides themselves,
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to palliate their Thefts of Poultry, Linnen,
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&c.
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A sort of itinerant
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Hedge-Robbers, and Strippers of Children, &c.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ACADEMY</h2>
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<p>a Bawdy House; a Receptacle for all sorts of Villains, where
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the Young Ones are initiated in the
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<i class="eg">Canting Language</i>, and all manner of
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Cheats and Impostures, and sorted into
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Tribes and Bands, according to their
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several Capacities for Mischief.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ADAM TILER</h2>
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<p>the Comerade of a
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Pick pocket, who receives stollen
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Goods or Money, and scours off with
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them, <i class="eg">Tip the coal to Adam Tiler</i>; i.e.
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give the Money, Watch, &c. to a running
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Companion, that the Pick Pocket
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may have nothing found upon him,
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when he is apprehended.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AFFIDAVIT-MEN</h2>
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<p>Knights of the
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Post: mercenary and abandoned Wretches,
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who used to frequent the <i>Temple</i>
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and other Inns of Court, in order to be
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in Readiness to swear any thing that
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was proposed to them.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ALSATIA <i>the Higher</i></h2>
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<h2><i>White-Fryars</i></h2>
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<p>once a Privileged Place, as the <i>Mint</i>
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was lately; but suppressed, on Account
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of the notorious Abuses committed in
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it.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ALSATIA <i>the Lower</i></h2>
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<p>the <i>Mint</i> in <i>Southwark</i>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ALSATIANS</h2>
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<p>the Inhabitants of
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these two Places, such as broken
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Tradesmen, extravagant Spendthrifts.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ALTEMAL</h2>
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<p><i>Vide Dutch</i> Reckoning.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AMBIDEXTER</h2>
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<p>one that goes snacks
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in Gaming with both Parties; also a
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Lawyer that takes Fees of Plaintiff and
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Defendant at once.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2><i>To</i> AMUSE [in a <i>Canting sense</i>]</h2>
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<p>to
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fling Dust in the Eyes; also to invent
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strange Tales to delude Shop keepers
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and others, from being upon their
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Guard.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AMUSEMENT</h2>
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<p>a blind, or feint.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AMU'SERS</h2>
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<p>who were wont to have
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their Pockets filled with Dust, which
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they would throw into the Eyes of
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People they had a mind to rob, and so
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run away, while their Comerade, who
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followed them, under the Notion of
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pitying the half blinded Person, laid
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his Hand on whatever came next.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ANGLERS</h2>
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<h2><i>alias</i> HOOKERS</h2>
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<p>petty
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Thieves, who have a Stick with a
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Hook at the End, wherewith they
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pluck Things out of Windows, Grates,
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&c.
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<i class="eg">Make ready your Angling Stick</i>; a
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Word of Command used by these petty
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Villains, to get ready the Stick with
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which they perform their Pranks, and
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as a Signal of a Prey in Sight.
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In the Day-time they beg from House to
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House, to spy best where to plant their
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Designs, which at Night they put in
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Execution.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ANTICKS</h2>
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<p>such as dress themselves
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up with Ribbons, mismatched Colours,
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Feathers &c.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ANTIQUATED</h2>
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<p>an old Rogue, or
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one who has forgot, or left off his
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Trade of thieving, is said to be.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ARCH-ROGUE</h2>
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<p>the <i class="eg">Dimber-Damber Uprightman</i> or Chief of a Gang; as
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<i>Arch-Dell</i>, or <i>Arch-Doxy</i> signifies the
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same Degree in Rank among the Female
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<i>Canters</i> and <i>Gypsies</i>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ARK</h2>
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<p>a Boat or Wherry.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ARK-RUFFIANS</h2>
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<p>Rogues, who in
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Conjunction with Watermen, &c. rob
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and sometimes murder on the Water;
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by picking a Quarrel with the Passenger
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and then plundering, stripping and
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throwing him or her over board, &c.</p>
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<p>A Species of <i>Badgers</i>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>ASSIG.</h2>
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<p>An Assignation, Appointment or Meeting</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AUNT</h2>
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<p>a Bawd, or Procuress; a Title of Eminence for the <i>Senior Dells</i>,
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who serve for Instructresses, Midwives,
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&c., to the <i>Morts</i>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AUTEM</h2>
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<p>a Church; also married.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AUTEM-BAWLER</h2>
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<p>a Preacher, or Parson, of any sect.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AUTEM-CACKLERS</h2>
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<h2>AUTEM-PRICKEARS</h2>
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<p>Dissenters of any Denomination.</p>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AUTEM-CACKLETUB</h2>
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<p>a Conventicle,
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a Meeting-House for Dissenters.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AUTEM-DIPPERS</h2>
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<p>Anabaptists.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AUTEM-DIVERS</h2>
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<p>Church-Pick-pockets;
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also Church-wardens, Overseers of the Poor.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AUTEM-GOGGLERS</h2>
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<p>pretended <i>French</i> Prophets.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AUTEM-MORT</h2>
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<p>a marry'd Woman;
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also one who travels up and
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down the Country, with one Child in
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their Arms, another on her Back,
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and often leading a third in her Hand.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AUTEM-QUAVERS</h2>
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<p><i>Quakers</i></p>
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</div>
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<div class="entry">
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<h2>AUTEM-QUA-VERTUB</h2>
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<p>a <i>Quaker's</i>
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Meeting-House.</p>
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