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sent by Colonel Watson: He was confined [at] the Sarang’s House all night in the Morning the Plaintiff was carried before the Defendant who charged him with having taken advance money and not having done the work.
The Plaintiff answer’d he had received no advance money that he was not employ by Colonel Watson, but was employ’d by Mr. Lyon.
The Defendant did not attend to this allegation of the Plaintiff but order’d a Sarang to beat him: The Serang did according flog the Plaintiff in the sight of the Defendant.
And afterward the D. order’d the Plaintiff to return the Money which the D. and his Sercar said the P. had received and because
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