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Labourer, Sunker Mistree of Calcutta aforesaid and Oocur Sein of Calcutta aforesaid Labourer on the ninth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty eight and in the twenty eighth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth and divers other days and times between that day and the ninth day of June in the year aforesaid with Force and Arms at Calcutta and Factory of Fort William in the Province of Bengal did keep and maintain and yet do keep and maintain a certain common ill governed and disorderly house and in the said house for their own Lucre and Gain certain evil and ill disposed persons of evil name and Fame and of dishonest conversations to frequent and come together then and the said other days and times there unlawfully and wilfully did cause and procure and the said Persons in their said house at unlawful times as well in the night as in the day time then and the
said