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the woman, a fact of which he was wholly ignorant and unconscious.

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The Jury found the Prisoner guilty and Judgement of death was accordingly pronounced against him, but the Execution of the Judgement hath been suspended until the King’s pleasure shall be known.
The said Court doth most humbly recommend the said John Baddaford to his Majesty’s Mercy for the following reasons.
1. Because the Jury who tried the prisoner earnestly desired the Court so to recommend him, thinking as they said that his story was probably true, though he had no witnesses to prove that the woman had given him such sweetmeats. They added that they had heard and believed that such artifices were common among the women of this country.
2. Because the condition in which the prisoner is proved to have been during the following night, and his suddnely waking from that state,
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