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If it be asked what reason for all this caution when the Party only desires to bring an offender to Justice: I answer it apprs to me highly reasonable that he who draws other before an extraordinary Judicature, to be tried, not by the law of the land, but for that which is no crime by the law of the land, who causes him to be tried & convicted of such supposed offence, without Trial by Jury & without appeal or writ of Escor, and to be punished not indeed with death but with his grace, – ought to do it at the his peril [ILL] to knowing that both the Man & the Matter are subject
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