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said Comity, did openly, in the hearing of all the Freeholders there assembled, charge William Forster, Esq., the Candidate on the other side, with being- a Jacobite, and in the interest of the Pretender, and that he should say to Mr. William Willet (a person of good estate and known integrity, who was at that time present and ready to make oath to the truth of what was said) that true it was that he had not taken the oaths to his Majesty King George, and enjoyed a place in the Government under him which gave him his bread; yet notwithstanding that, should King James come into England he should think himself obliged to go strongly urged to Forster's face, who denied for nohim. fightand there it to beandtrue; more This was was said loudly of it atand that time. and it stood thus: closed, was poll the night that About 11 o'clock For the Late Chief Justice The Quakers For William Forster, Esq The Difference Total