GEORGE the Third by the grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. To Thomas
James< no role > [..] greeting. For certain causes, us thereunto moving, we command, and strictly enjoin ye, and
every of you, that laying aside all pretences and excuses whatsoever, ye be in your proper persons before our Justices, assigned to deliver our Gaol of
Newgate , of the Prisoners therein being, for the County by Middlesex , at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey , in the Suburbs of the City of London , on
Saturday the Sixteenth day of September at the hour of Eleven in the fire noon of same day, then and there to
testify the Truth, and give evidence according to your knowledge, between us and Samuel Robert Burns< no role >
in a case of Felony And this none of you shall omit, under the
penalty of one hundred pounds, to be levied upon the goods and chattels, lands and tenements, of such, and every one of you, as shall sail in the premisses,
Witness them us Sainsbury Esquire Mayor of the City of London , at Justice-Hall aforesaid, the Twelfth day of September in the
Twenty seventh year of our reign.

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