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<p n="208">At the General Session of the Peace held at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50603_geo160">Hicks Hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50603_geo161">Saint John Street</rs>
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in<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50603_geo162">Middlesex</rs>
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September in the Year<obscured></obscured>
Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy and in the Tenth Year of the<obscured></obscured>
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Britain France Ireland King Defender of the Fa<obscured></obscured>
and soforth before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n208-2">John Hawkins</rs>
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Bartholomew<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n208-3">George Mercer</rs>
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the Younger <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50603_occ71">Esquires</rs>
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and others their fellows Justices of our Sovereign Lord<obscured></obscured>
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Lord the King in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50603_geo163">County of Middlesex</rs>
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aforesaid and also to hear and Determine Divers Felonies Trespasses and other<obscured></obscured>
deeds<obscured></obscured>
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chor<obscured></obscured>
wein the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50603_geo164">County of Middlesex</rs>
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aforesaid Mariner Crave<obscured></obscured>
Security of the<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50603_geo165">Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50603_geo166">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50603_occ72">Mariner</rs>
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for fear of Danger to his Life or Personal Perjury and<obscured></obscured>
from Mo<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="209"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">First</note>
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That this Informant in theMonth of May in the Year One Thousand seven hundred and Sixty<obscured></obscured>
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Captain and Commander of a certain Ship or Sessel called the Granby which during all the<obscured></obscured>
aforesaid was and Still<obscured></obscured>
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England<obscured></obscured>
ding to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50603_geo167">East Indies</rs>
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Commonly called the East Indies Company.</p>
<p n="210"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Secondly</note>
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That is about theMonth of January One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty Eight the Said George Clock<obscured></obscured>
Bo<obscured></obscured>
she said Ship<obscured></obscured>
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under the Command of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n210-1">Joseph Jackson</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50603_n210-1" type="surname" value="Jackson"></interp>
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Since Deceased as a Foremast Man to Perfe<obscured></obscured>
she said Ship<obscured></obscured>
say<obscured></obscured>
part of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50603_geo168">London</rs>
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to the<obscured></obscured>
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and from thence back to London.</p>
<p n="211"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Thirdly</note>
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That<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n211-1">George Clarke</rs>
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whilst he was on board the aforesaid Ship under the Company<obscured></obscured>
frequently<obscured></obscured>
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aly manner</p>
<p n="212">FourthlyThat the aforesaid Ship Arrived at the part of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50603_geo169">London</rs>
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on or about the Nineteenth<obscured></obscured>
of our<obscured></obscured>
One thousand and<obscured></obscured>
Seventy when this<lb></lb>
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mant according to Custom long used in the Service of the said East Indies Company where<obscured></obscured>
and Mar<obscured></obscured>
Ordered<obscured></obscured>
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then belonging to the Said<obscured></obscured>
to go on Shore having discharged them from all farther Date<obscured></obscured>
on boa<obscured></obscured>
Ship And<obscured></obscured>
and to<obscured></obscured>
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he had given such Order was the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n212-1">George Clarke</rs>
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and this Informant Expected that she<obscured></obscured>
he would<obscured></obscured>
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being Commander of the said Ship had a right<obscured></obscured>
Discharge him.</p>
<p n="213">FifthlyThat in the afternoon of the said Cas<obscured></obscured>
mentioned Day, some houses after this Informant had discharge<obscured></obscured>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n213-1">George Clark</rs>
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and given him such<obscured></obscured>
Under, he to<obscured></obscured>
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Street Surprize, Saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n213-2">George Clarke</rs>
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on board the aforesaid Ship Whereupon this Informant Asked him<obscured></obscured>
why he did not go on there? To which the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n213-3">George Clark</rs>
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is a Very Insolent manner Answered in the Presence and hearing of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n213-4">Robert Phillips</rs>
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the first Mate<obscured></obscured>
d Nathaniel<obscured></obscured>
the second Mate of the said<obscured></obscured>
Justice<lb></lb>
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on board is<obscured></obscured>
as I Please you are a Second<obscured></obscured>
rell and a Rascall and the first Time I<obscured></obscured>
et you on Shore I<obscured></obscured>
you" or in Words to that effect And<obscured></obscured>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n213-5">George<lb></lb>
Clarke</rs>
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did at the same time<obscured></obscured>
ly revile this Informant with many other Approbrico<obscured></obscured>
Words and did make<obscured></obscured>
various<obscured></obscured>
And threaty Against<obscured></obscured>
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by which this Informant Understood that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n213-6">George Clarke</rs>
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meant that when a<obscured></obscured>
Warrant Oppertunity shall<obscured></obscured>
on there he would take away<obscured></obscured>
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Informant or otherwise do him<obscured></obscured>
great and bodily hange.</p>
<p n="214"> <obscured></obscured>
Informant Saith<obscured></obscured>
for the several<obscured></obscured>
and Reasons aforesaid and f<obscured></obscured>
the<obscured></obscured>
Conduct of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n214-1">George Clarke</rs>
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board<obscured></obscured>
said<obscured></obscured>
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<obscured></obscured>
he was under the Command of him his Informant he<obscured></obscured>
Informant hath great C<obscured></obscured>
that his life with<obscured></obscured>
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from the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n214-2">George Clark</rs>
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and the he<obscured></obscured>
Cause Security of the peace against the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n214-3">George Clarke</rs>
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any M<obscured></obscured>
of<lb></lb>
aid <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50603_n214-4">George Clarke</rs>
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but only from fear of<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="215"> <obscured></obscured>
ed Exhibitant was<obscured></obscured>
to the truth<lb></lb>
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at Hicks Hall<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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Year<lb></lb>
first<obscured></obscured>
withon</p>
<p n="216">By the Court<lb></lb>
Butler</p>
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