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An Affidavit was produced he owned that he wrote his master’s name, but said that he refused, at his master’s request, to personate his master (then in jail) and swears the affidavit but he owns that when his Master’s [ILL] had sworn it, he availed himself of it to obtain his master’s release.
It will be proved to you how it came to be sworn & who swore it.