First I wish to leave fixed in your Lordships' minds, what is distinctly fixed, and shall never go out of ours, that his covenant did not allow him to take above four hundred pounds as a present, upon any pretence whatsoever.
Burke asserts that Hastings' covenant strictly limited the amount he could accept as a present.
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