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They possessed or farmed.
Mr. Fay. Do you not think the words miserable successor, might as well be applied to the Military Officer who commands in Midnapore.
Mr. Motte. I do not thing it can be applied to the Military Commander in Midnapore. The successor must mean the Person now in Possession of the Place Lord Clive Held, because he uses the word disgraces the Seat, in the Present Tense.

[This Indictment is on Hicky’s Gazetter No. IX – 1781. March 24th ]