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. Upon whose Tryal it appeared, That the Prisoner Bailing a Person who was under an Arrest, the Bail-Bond, for want of due Regard, was signed over to the use of the Plaintiff. Of which the Prisoner having Notice, and that there was a Writ taken out to Arrest him, procured a Supersedias by putting in Bail, it being in the Marshals Court, But the Head-Bayliff, with some unbecoming Oath, refusing to take Notice of it, attempting with a reviewed Writ to attack the Prisoner, he, after being very much assaulted by the Bayliff and his Followers with Stones, and other mischievous things, whereby his Life was endangered, drew his Sword, and stood upon his Defence; when as the Deceased pressing on, received a Mortal Wound under the Left Arm, of which he died the 12th of November last, in the Parish of
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