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nothing more than loving only God and not the Papist doctrine of his accusers, to a horrific
               death - burnt alive on Aldham Common? But, for all that I have just said, may in fact be mere
               hearsay for no extant primary historical document be had that hath writ this to be true. No
               undeniable proof that he was ever held within this Guildhall or by whom; and by reasoned
               logic, this doth make me innocent and thus shows the words, I as Jack did speak falsehoods
               borne of an overactive imagination.

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