high seas, within the jurisdiction

The Court of Admiralty of Hongkong aforesaid, to wit about the distance of

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the Coast of China, in and upon one

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and there being a certain English

brig or vessel called the Starling and in the peace of God and Our said Lady the Queen, feloniously,

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his malice aforethought, did make an

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assault; and that the said Salvador Lacrase, with a certain

knife of

the value of half dollar, which he the said

Salvador Lacrase in his right hand then there had and held, the

said William Stopkins, in and upon the left

the left side

of the back, between the short ribs of

the said William Hopkins, then and there, feloniously, wilfully, with malice aforethought

and

did strike, stab, and thrust, giving to the said William Hopkins,

then and there, with the aforesaid, in and upon the left side

of the back between the short ribs

him the said William Hopkins, one mortal

wound of the breadth of three inches and of the depth of six inches; of which said mortal

the said William Hopkins, the twentieth

day of October

in the year aforesaid, until the twenty seventh day of October in the year aforesaid on the high seas

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