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1778. 3 Term. [Thursday] July 2d.

of opinion it should go on in the way it had hitherto done.

Lokong and Anghee
v
Joseph Rees.
The Plaintiffs were two Chinese who came in a Macao Ship hither, and sold goods to nearly the value of [800?] Current Rupees. Joseph Rees was what we call a Portuguese, born at Macao in China, and kept here in this Town of Fort William in Bengal, what we call a Europe and China Godown: which means a Warehouse, he went on board the Macao Ship, and there as it was said, bargain’d with these two Chinese for all the Goods they had.
In order to obtain a Writ to arrest, they came to swear an affidavit of Debt before me. They said one of the modes of swearing among them, was to kneel down sub dio and to throw down a China-ware Plate and dash it to pieces, and in this manner they did swear. They spoke a little Portuguese, sufficient for the purpose, of such Portuguese as is spoken in the East Indies, which is very different from the Portuguese Spoken
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