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that if the man chose to swear it he must abide the consequence. He then put the affidavit agn into my hands and I presented it to the Judge. I then put the book into the prisoner’s hands and told them it was the book of the holy Exemplists, that only the language and letters wdere different but that in substance it was the same with our Armenian Gospels. Mr. Justice Hyde, having looked at the affidavit [ILL]