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was no design to kill any Man for you are to to look, not only to the immediate Cause, nor even to the proximate Cause alone, but to the Primary Cause.
Such was the Case of a Lascar on board a Ship, who was tied to the Shrouds of a ship, as it was sworn before me only for safe Custody, about Sun-Set he was untied, and asking for water it was given to him, and he drank of it plentifully, although he was
/ caution’d