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and said you can get 200 Guineas a piece if you will release him. We still refused and then offered 5000, Rupees, thinking that, I suppose, to be more than 200 Guineas a piece – more than 600 Gas for I understood his offer of 200 Gas a piece to relate to all [ILL].
We refused it, and he then said he would go to Mr. Williams’s Garden house and get him to do it.
At this time only Mr. Jones, Mr. Tolloh and I were present, & nature servants who went backward and forwards.)
We told him he might go to Mr. Williams if he pleased but if Mr. Williams consented