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and ready when called for, And that
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upon the Goal Delivery the Court at the
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might make such Orders for the removeing
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All which reasons your Committee apprehend
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are not sufficient to ballance the great & many
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inconveniencys that must consequentially attend
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are not any
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of them the most notorious Criminalls, but for thefts
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of a small value, and generally on suspicon of
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felony only, and that very often on very trivial
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malice or stubborness of the Prosecutors who compel
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the Justices to comitt them even against their own
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