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10th December 1772 - 12th July 1774

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in manner and form as by the said Indictment above against him is supposed
And that he at the time of the Committing the said Felony or at any time since had
no Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements to the Knowledge of the said Jurors and
upon this it is required by the said Court here of the said William Booth if he hath or
know of anything to say for himself why the Court ought not to proceed to Judgment
and Execution thereof against him upon the Conviction aforesaid which said William
Booth saith nothing except as he before had say'd Whereupon all and singular the
premisses being seen and fully understood by the Court here it is considered and Adjudged
by the Court here that he the said William Booth be Hanged by the Neck until he be
Dead And Afterwards (to wit) At the Delivery of the Kings Gaol of Newgate holden
for the County of Middlesex at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey in the Suburbs of
the City of London on Wednesday the Twenty first day of April in the said
Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our said Lord the King Before James Townsend< no role >
Esquire Mayor of the City of London Sir Henry Gould< no role > Knight one of the Justices of
our said Lord the King of his Court of Common pleas George Perrot< no role > Esquire one of
the Barons of our said Lord the King of his Court of Exchequer Sir Charles Asgill< no role >
Knight and Baronet one of the Aldermen of the said City of London The Right
Honourable Thomas Harley< no role > Esquire one other of the Aldermen of the said City
John Glynn< no role > Serjeant at Law Recorder of the said City John Sawbridge< no role > Esquire one
other of the Aldermen of the said City and others their fellows Justices of our said
Lord the King Assigned to deliver the said Gaol of our said Lord the King of
Newgate of the prisoners therein being Cometh the said William Booth< no role > under
the Custody of Richard Oliver< no role > Esquire and Sir Watkin Lewes< no role > Knight Sheriff of the
said County of Middlesex into whose Custody he had been before Committed and is
brought to the Bar herein his proper person by the said Sheriff And our said Lord
the King having been graciously pleased to extend his Royal Mercy to the said
William Booth upon Condition of Transportation for and during the Term of Fourteen
Years and such the Royal pleasure of our said Lord the King having been Signified
to the said last mentioned Justices and Court here by the Right Honourable Henry
Howard
< no role > Earl of Suffolk one of the principal Secretaries of State of our said Lord the
King (according to the Statute in that behalf) The said William Booth is asked by the
Court here Whether he doth Consent and Agree to accept the Mercy of our said Lord
the King upon the Condition aforesaid And he the said William Booth doth now
here Consent and Agree thereunto Whereupon It is Ordered by the Court now here
that the said William Booth be Transported to some of the Colonies or plantations of
our said Lord the King in America for the Term of Fourteen Years pursuant
to the form of the Statute in such Case made and provided.




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