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164.)

now put to the Bar to be tried on the following indictment

Fort William} The Jurors for our Lord the
in Bengal } King upon their Oath present that Samuel Middleditch a Private Soldier in the service of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies not having the fear of God before his Eyes but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil on the 20th of September in the year of our Lord 1791 and in the 37th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain france and Ireland King Defender of the fauth and so forth with force and arms at Berhampoor with in the Province of Bengal in and upon one Humphry Hopkins in the peace of God and our said Lord the King then & there being feloniously willfully and of his malice aforethought did make an assault and that he the said Samuel Middleditch with a certain Gun of the value
of