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At the General Session of the Peace held at
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September in the Year
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Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy and in the Tenth Year of the
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Britain France Ireland King Defender of the Fa
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the Younger
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and others their fellows Justices of our Sovereign Lord
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Lord the King in and for the
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aforesaid and also to hear and Determine Divers Felonies Trespasses and other
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deeds
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aforesaid Mariner Crave
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Security of the
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for fear of Danger to his Life or Personal Perjury and
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from Mo
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First
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That this Informant in theMonth of May in the Year One Thousand seven hundred and Sixty
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Captain and Commander of a certain Ship or Sessel called the Granby which during all the
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aforesaid was and Still
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ding to the
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Commonly called the East Indies Company.
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That is about theMonth of January One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty Eight the Said George Clock
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Bo
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she said Ship
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under the Command of
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Joseph Jackson
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Since Deceased as a Foremast Man to Perfe
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she said Ship
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say
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part of
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to the
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and from thence back to London.
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That
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George Clarke
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whilst he was on board the aforesaid Ship under the Company
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frequently
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aly manner
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FourthlyThat the aforesaid Ship Arrived at the part of
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on or about the Nineteenth
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of our
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One thousand and
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Seventy when this
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mant according to Custom long used in the Service of the said East Indies Company where
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and Mar
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Ordered
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then belonging to the Said
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to go on Shore having discharged them from all farther Date
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on boa
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Ship And
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and to
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he had given such Order was the said
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George Clarke
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and this Informant Expected that she
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he would
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being Commander of the said Ship had a right
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Discharge him.
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FifthlyThat in the afternoon of the said Cas
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mentioned Day, some houses after this Informant had discharge
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said
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George Clark
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and given him such
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Under, he to
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Street Surprize, Saw the said
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on board the aforesaid Ship Whereupon this Informant Asked him
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why he did not go on there? To which the said
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George Clark
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is a Very Insolent manner Answered in the Presence and hearing of
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Robert Phillips
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the first Mate
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d Nathaniel
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the second Mate of the said
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Justice
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on board is
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as I Please you are a Second
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rell and a Rascall and the first Time I
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et you on Shore I
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you" or in Words to that effect And
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said
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George
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Clarke
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did at the same time
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ly revile this Informant with many other Approbrico
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Words and did make
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various
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And threaty Against
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by which this Informant Understood that the said
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George Clarke
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meant that when a
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Warrant Oppertunity shall
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on there he would take away
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Informant or otherwise do him
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great and bodily hange.
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Informant Saith
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for the several
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and Reasons aforesaid and f
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the
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Conduct of the said
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George Clarke
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