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16th November 1758 - 20th December 1776

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Image 57 of 13813th September 1776


And you having by Certificate under
your Hand humbly recommended them to the
King as fit Objects of His Majesty's Mercy on
Condition that they the said, William Clark< no role > ,
Charles Chapman< no role > , Burford Camper< no role > , William
Wheeler
< no role > , John Davis< no role > , Richard Cole< no role > , John Proctor< no role >
William Kerrison< no role > , William Evans< no role > , William
Jefferson
< no role > , Levy Solomons< no role > , Henry Jordan< no role > , James
Blackett
< no role > , James Lecores< no role > , William Godfrey< no role > , Thomas
Jones
< no role > , als Evans< no role > , Thomas Rowney< no role > , als Rowley< no role > ,
Abraham Vandome< no role > This name instance is in set 2008. , and Joseph Priestley< no role > alias
Jubilee< no role > als Baker< no role > , be respectively kept to hard
Labour for the Term of Three years in raising
sand, Soil and Gravel from and cleansing the
River Thames and other Service for the benefit
of the Navigation of the said River, under the
management and Direction of the Overseer or
overseers appointed in pursuance of an Act of
Parliament passed in the Sixteenth year of His
Majesty's Reign, intitled an Act to authorize
for a limited Time the Punishment by hard
Labour of offenders, who for certain Crimes are
or shall become liable to be transported to any of
His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations. His
Majesty has thereupon been graciously pleand
to extend His Mercy to Them on the above
condition, and has commanded me to signify
the same to you, that you do forth with give
the necessary orders for putting the same into
Execution in pursuance of the Act of Parliament
in that behalf.

I am
Sir
Your most Obedient
humble Servant,
Weymouth




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