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appeared to me that, if the jury had attended to the evidence for the King and had given credit to it, they could not have acquitted the prisoners; but as that was their province and not mine, I did not think it necessary to ask them any questions, having sufficiently stated to them the effect of that Evidence when I summed it up. One of them however said, in the name of the rest, that “the Jury were convinced that a gaming house, (so he expressed himself and not gaming houses) had been kept, but they did not think it clearly proved by whom it was kept. This I thought extraordinary be=
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