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1783. 2 Term. [Monday] March 17.

by their being imprisoned as Prisoners of War, after they had taken the Oath.
The Oath of Allegiance if taken unqualified will not make the Man who takes it a Subject, for if it did, the, the Statutes which are yearly passed to make persons Denizens would never be applied for, because it would be much easier to take the the Oaths if that would make the Man who takes them a subject.
The taking of the Place by the forces of the Company will not make the Inhabitants British Subjects, while hostilities continue between the two Nations
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