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in the thirty sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third,
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by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith,
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Seals affixed, good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly chosen, who being then and
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Eyes but moved and reduced by the Instigation of the Devil on or about the twenty ninth day of May
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Lord the King then and there being feloniously, wilfully, and of his Malice aforethought
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did make an Assault and that the said person or persons unknown, a certain Instrumt.
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to these Jurors unknown, which he she or they had and held in his her or their hand
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to and against the Throat or gullect of him the said Marquis de Monerrd de Laval did
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