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1779. Sittings. [Wednesday July 14.

Several Months, but has never appear'd in Court) did not attempt to produce Evidence to prove the Facts which were asserted in the Justification, except it might be taken for Evidence that those Facts are asserted in the Proceedings of the Patna Council, or, as Mr. Lawrence chose repeatedly to call them, their Records.
It appear'd Manifestly to me, that Mr. Lawrence, and I believe also by advice of Sir John Day, purposely avoided, introducing into this Cause, although his Clients the Defendants had presented, but about a Month ago an Indictment for forging these writings, and had charged it as felony, by calling these writings Deeds, though I suspect they well knew they were not deeds, within the common use of the Word by English Men, or the Meaning of the Statute.
The Court, all three, agreed, that the Justification was not proved, and that there must be Judgment, for the Plaintiff,
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