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<p n="559">tried for affect upon which the Petitioner Brown hath been<lb></lb>
abready Acquitted there And the Petr. Edge Examinned in Court as a<lb></lb>
Witness therein as appears by the Several Acts of Court now in the <lb></lb>
Petitioners Custody ready to be produced and the affidavits of Comodore<lb></lb>
Action and Captain Pattle thereto annexed.</p>
<p n="560">That the Contents of the Said Reillys Petition is Entirely false<lb></lb>
& such his proceedings carried on merely to Extort Money from<lb></lb>
the Petitioner the said Reilly with the Assistance afford in<lb></lb>
the Said Reillys Petition mentioned having already extorted Six<lb></lb>
Guineas from One of the Ships Crew on pretence of Charging<lb></lb>
him with a felony & for which the Said Beilly and Ford Stand<lb></lb>
now Indicted.</p>
<p n="561">That the petitioners are ready and attending to make<lb></lb>
out their Innocence & Pray to be heard by Way of defence upon<lb></lb>
the Matter of the said Petition</p>
<p n="562">We have been attended by the said Petr. Reilly and by<lb></lb>
the Said Browne and Edge and also by Captain Pattle Comander<lb></lb>
of the said Privateer with several other of the Ships Company and<lb></lb>
the Several affidavits of Comodore Acton, Captain Pattle, Thomas<lb></lb>
Ubly, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50390_n562-1">Grey Elliot</rs>
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, the said Edge and Browne and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50390_n562-2">Richard Keyt</rs>
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have been laid before us (all which are herewith transmitted) And<lb></lb>
we humbly beg leave to Observe to Your Majesty; First that the<lb></lb>
Examinations or Affidavits of the Said Barry and ford do not<lb></lb>
Charge either the said Brown or Edge with being present or<lb></lb>
Privy to the beating the deceased on Shore and what is Sworn<lb></lb>
by them to have happened on or about the 5th. of August on Shore<lb></lb>
is only upon their Information and belief and their affidavits Appear<lb></lb>
to be contradicted in several Material Facts.</p>
<p n="563">And we further beg leave to represent to Your<lb></lb>
Majesty that the Case appears to us from the other affidts. to be<lb></lb>
ThusThat the Deceased was a Private Marine and not first</p>
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