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<p>If a <add>any one</add> person, a stranger to the unhappy <lb/>corruption which reigns in the Law of England<lb/> in this behalf, was to be told of a Judge<lb/> who prevailed with a Jury to violate their <lb/>oaths & a false verdict give; in contemplation<lb/> <add>knowing it to be so</add> of its being so, he would<lb/> look upon such a Judge as highly<lb/> criminal, & expect that some exemplary <lb/> punishment should follow: he would still be confirmed in<lb/> his opinion, if he were further told, <lb/>that <del>what was</del> <add>this very thing</add> thus compassed at<lb/> the expence of so much iniquity, might<lb/> have been equally compassed without<lb/> any: — <gap/> this was done by a <lb/><gap/> very worthy Magistrate, highly <lb/>and deservedly respected, who in the <lb/>full consciousness of having done right <lb/>in doing so, relates it of himself <lb/> Forter's <unclear>Causes</unclear> Law p. </p> | |||
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If a any one person, a stranger to the unhappy
corruption which reigns in the Law of England
in this behalf, was to be told of a Judge
who prevailed with a Jury to violate their
oaths & a false verdict give; in contemplation
knowing it to be so of its being so, he would
look upon such a Judge as highly
criminal, & expect that some exemplary
punishment should follow: he would still be confirmed in
his opinion, if he were further told,
that what was this very thing thus compassed at
the expence of so much iniquity, might
have been equally compassed without
any: — this was done by a
very worthy Magistrate, highly
and deservedly respected, who in the
full consciousness of having done right
in doing so, relates it of himself
Forter's Causes Law p.
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