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if Mrs D: Petrus cod read & write English. The Prisr said too, but that she had got the bond drawn and had sent it to him; and that some of his friends had explain’d it to him. He sd when I fod the bond was a proper one I carried it to Mrs D. Petrus, her son was present who read & expld it to her & then she execd. All this passed in Calcutta in this very house, when I spoke of the Judge’s chamber. I meant the adjoining room