245 256 enough. But how can he rightly
answer it? or anybody else?
unless indeed it be he who lies
within there" designating the
compartment where lay the corpse.
"But he ^ the prone one tho there will will not rise to our summons.
In effect tho', as it seems to me, that your
the point you make though attesting your thoughtfulnes
is not hardly material. Quite
aside from any conceivable motive
20 actuating the Master-at-arms,
and irrespective of the provocation
to the blow, and or even the blow itself
a martial court should ^ must needs ^ in the present case confine its
attention to the blow's consequce, which ^ consequnce justly
is to be deemed not otherwise than as
the prisoner's striker's deed."
245 256 enough. But how can he rightly
answer it? or anybody else?
unless indeed it be he who lies
within there" designating the
compartment where lay the corpse.
"But he ^ the prone one tho there will will not rise to our summons.
In effect tho', as it seems to me, that your
the point you make though attesting your thoughtfulnes
is not hardly material. Quite
aside from any conceivable motive
20 actuating the Master-at-arms,
and irrespective of the provocation
to the blow, and or even the blow itself
a martial court should ^ must needs ^ in the present case confine its
attention to the blow's consequce, which ^ consequnce justly
is to be deemed not otherwise than as
the prisoner's striker's deed."

Transcribed by: John Bryant