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26 Jany 1808
guilty of so doing, and for dealing with him accordingly,
forasmuch as for the reasons aforesaid they are not qualified
it is not to be presumed believed of them though upon their oaths they say they
do, that they understand what cutting is. To understand
what cutting it is, it is necessary for a man to be a
professionally bred Judge. Accordingly on this occasion what is meant by
the word to cut is a question fit on this c to be referred, and referred
accordingly to the 12 great Judges.
Though they were all taylors, or at cabinet makers
of butchers cutters employed in cutting from childhood
upwards, still they would know any of them what cutting is,
the instant they were put are shut into the Jury-box that
knowledge has passed from out of them: for him to be preserve
whatever knowledge his experience may have helped
him to conceiving the import of the word cutting a
man's seat must be on the Bench.
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