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in the thirty fifth 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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aforesaid do say, that the said Harriot Beard, in Manner and by Means
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