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Executors administrators shall or may hereafter have claim challenge
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whatsoever from the beginning of the World unto the day of the date of these
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of the Reign of our Sovereign George the third
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by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
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Defender of the Faith and in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
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