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before being released on bond. Ten weeks later his house was searched again, and although
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his father was handed a cup of wine, which he drank, and told his wife to drink to Peter
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At the trial, Bullock testified that he had bound various
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his wife went into labor, but subsequently picked up when it was found that he had sent some
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monk and recorded much of what we know about his father. Duckett made his living at that time as a tailor, also making garments, vestments, and altar linens for priests.
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