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The Writ of Surcease calls him a liege subject.
If in the Court of Civil Jurisdiction Mr. Paterson might have done what he has done, yet if he has done it in the Criminal Court, the process is wrong, and the proceedings are void.
As, in a Case in the Exchequeer, where Thirty Thousand Pounds of Treasure, were taken out of a Foreign Ship wreck’d on the Goodwin Sands, and the Treasure was lodged in Houses at Deal, Lord North as Warden of the
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