mind,’ quoth King Monmouth, with Derek Stepan Jersey a laugh. ‘But you have omitted to tell us how the said writ or summons is to be conveyed to these same delinquents.’
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‘If it please your Majesty,’ I asked, ‘have I permission to speak?’
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