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1778. The Third Term 1778. Monday June 15th.

Monday June 15h 1778.
The First day of the Third Term 1778.
Present
Sir Robert Chambers
&
Mr. Justice Hyde.

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Bhudjeram.
For Burglary in the House of Gowr Sunder Adicary and Stealing many Gold and Silver things
We heard some common motions, and while they were going on, I proposed that the Sessions should be open'd, because there were some indictments on which the Grand Jury might examine the witnesses, while the business of the Term was going on, at first my brother Chambers objected to this, but on my saying that I conceived it could not be irregular for us to be sitting in the Supreme Court of Judicature when the business of the Sessions was going on, the Court itself, and not the Judges being made the Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, and on my saying it would save time, my brother
Chambers