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The Jurors for our Lord the King upon their Oath present That the City of
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on the 21st: day of December in the 19th: Year of the Reign of our sovereign Lord George the
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Third King of Great Britain Etc and long before being an Inhabitant and resistant within
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not regarding his Duty in this behalf but endeavouring and
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intending as much as in him lay totally to hindey and retard the dew Execution of
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Justice on the sd. 21st day of Dec. in the Year afsd. and continually from thence unto the day of the
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taking their Inquisition at the Parish & Ward afsd:
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