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Page 180 - I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to his Majesty, his heirs, and successors, all treasons, and traitorous conspiracies and attempts, which I shall know to be against him, or any of them ; and all this I do swear without any equivocation, mental evasion or secret reservation...
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Page 181 - Majesty, his heirs, and successors, all treasons, and traitorous conspiracies and attempts, which I shall know to be against him, or any of them ; and all this I do swear without any equivocation, mental evasion or secret reservation, and renouncing all pardons and dispensations from any power or person whomsoever to the contrary. So help me God.
Page 347 - An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled, ' An Act for making more effectual provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec in North America...
Page 467 - Two thousand five hundred troops have this day surrendered prisoners of war, and about 25 pieces of ordnance have been taken, without the sacrifice of a drop of British blood. I had not more than seven hundred troops including militia, and about six hundred Indians, to accomplish this service. When I detail my good fortune, your excellency will be astonished.