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Petition was filed 8 July 1786.
It was made a question who should begin, and the Cot directed that the Advoc: for the first petitioner shod begin; at the same time declaring that as no book of Authy or of practice was quoted, and the practice here had not been uniform, we must do what appeared to us most reasonable; but that if we should afterwards find the practice to be different in the Eccl: Cots in Engld we shod conform to that whatever it may be.
The affidavits on both sides were many & long, and the arguments
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