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1783. Sessions. [Thursday] June 12.

it was such as a Court of Justice would not permit to be given. The Confession on the faith of a promise of forgiveness, which though Mr. Plowden had no authority to make, yet the Prisoner had relied on it, and had confessed on the faith of it, and it was in the power of Mr. Plowden to have performed that promise if he had never revealed to any Man, what Chattoor told him: It would therefore be a breach of faith
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