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HTML

<p><span class="note_message">The order was manually edited:<br/>The list of edits goes here, and this maybe somewhat long sometimes</span></p>

JavaScript

var Str=$(".note_message").filter(function(){
  return $(this).text().match(/^The order was manually edited\:/);
}).text().replace(/The order was manually edited\:/,'');

alert(Str);