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for the respective Offences in their Several Indictments mentioned Now it is herby Ordered that execution of the said Sentence be
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be respited until His Majestys pleasure touching them be farther known Given under my hand and
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Seal this thirty first day of January One thousand Seven hundred and ninety four
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whose names Etc. are severally written on pages. 18. No. 8
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20. No. 7 - 25 No 95.
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George R.
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Whereas John Smearly Robert De la Motte, Joseph Soufflatt, and
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were at the last Sessions holden
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at the
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tried and Convicted of Felony and had Sentence of Death passed upon them for the same And
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Whereas some favorable Circumstances have been humbly represented unto us in their behalf inducing us to Extend our Grace and
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Mercy unto them and to Grant them our Pardon for their said Crimes on Condition of their being respectively Transported. for and
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during the term of their natural lives to the Eastern Coast of
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New South
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or some or one of the Islands adjacent Our will and
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Pleasure therefore is that you give the neccessary directions accordingly and that they be inserted for their respective Crimes on the said
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Condition in our first and next General pardon that shall come out for the poor Convicts in
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Newgate
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And for so doing this shall
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be your. Warrant Given at our Court at
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Saint James's
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the 10th. day of December 1793 in the thirty fourth year of our Reign
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To our Trusty and Welbeloved Sir
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John William Rose
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Knight
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Recorder
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of our City of
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London, The Sheriffs of our said City and
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County of Middlesex
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and all others
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whom it may Concern.}
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By His Majestys Command
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Henry Dundas
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