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1786. Sessions. [Thursday] April 27

was not in either the lists of Witnesses but it was said that he came only to prove the usage of an office to which he had belonged. Of such usage however he knew nothing, but to enable the Defendants to examine him to other suits it was then asserted, & Mr. Hamilton offered to make his affidavit of it, that he & near 20 other witnesses had been omitted by his mistake, I shewed & the Court agreed that Mr. Hamilton ought to be examined viva [ILL] as a witness in the cause, and then the matter was dropt & we heard no more of those 20 witnesses.