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in the thirty fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
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George the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King
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chosen sworn and charged to inquire for our said Lord the King when how and in
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and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands
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