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both Servants
Remain [ILL] for Trial.
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An Indictment for a Nuisance by the Portuguese Burial Ground, also remains to be tried.

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[Monday] Dec. 13th. 1779.
like dag daggers, and were consider’d both as weapons, and as knives to serve the common purposes of knives.
When the Prisoner was put on his defence, he said he was not the Person who committed the Murder that he was twelve days out of his sences, and [when he recover’d?] his sences he found fetters on him, and was told he had kill’d a Man.
On this allegation of insanity, at the desire of the jury Braham Khaun (or Byram Khaum as Impey calls him in his Notes) was call’d back again, and ask’d, and