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in manner and form as by the said Indictment above against him is supposed
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And that he at the time of the Committing the said Felony or at any time since had
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no Goods or Chattels Lands or Tenements to the Knowledge of the said Jurors and
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upon this it is required by the said Court here of the said William Booth if he hath or
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know of anything to say for himself why the Court ought not to proceed to Judgment
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and Execution thereof against him upon the Conviction aforesaid which said William
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Booth saith nothing except as he before had say'd Whereupon all and singular the
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premisses being seen and fully understood by the Court here it is considered and Adjudged
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by the Court here that he the said William Booth be Hanged by the Neck until he be
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Dead And Afterwards (to wit) At the Delivery of the Kings Gaol of Newgate holden
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on Wednesday the Twenty first day of April in the said
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Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our said Lord the King Before
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into whose Custody he had been before Committed and is
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brought to the Bar herein his proper person by the said Sheriff And our said Lord
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the King having been graciously pleased to extend his Royal Mercy to the said
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William Booth upon Condition of Transportation for and during the Term of Fourteen
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Years and such the Royal pleasure of our said Lord the King having been Signified
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Earl of Suffolk
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one of the principal
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Secretaries of State
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of our said Lord the
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King (according to the Statute in that behalf) The said William Booth is asked by the
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Court here Whether he doth Consent and Agree to accept the Mercy of our said Lord
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the King upon the Condition aforesaid And he the said William Booth doth now
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here Consent and Agree thereunto Whereupon It is Ordered by the Court now here
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that the said William Booth be Transported to some of the Colonies or plantations of
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our said Lord the King in America for the Term of Fourteen Years pursuant
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to the form of the Statute in such Case made and provided.
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