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<p n="528">To the Right Honorable <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n528-1">Robert Peckham</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ547">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ548">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo779">City of London</rs>
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The Honorable<lb></lb>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ549">Esquire</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ550">Recorder</rs>
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of the said City and other his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ551">Justices of Oyer and Terminer</rs>
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, in their<lb></lb>
General Session assembled</p>
<p n="529">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n529-1">Kenneth Mc.Kenize</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ552">Esquire</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ553">Prisoner</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo780">Newgate</rs>
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<p n="530"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That your Petitioner was on or about the Twenty third day of October, in the Year of our Lord one<lb></lb>
thousand seven hundred and eight three Command to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo781">Newgate</rs>
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by a Warrant under the hands and Seals of the Right<lb></lb>
Honorable the Lords of his Majesty's most honorable Privy Counsel a Copy of which is hereto annexed.</p>
<p n="531">That your Petitioner at the time of his being arrested on the Gold coast in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo782">Africa</rs>
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delivered to Captain Wicky<lb></lb>
the Commander of the Rotterdam Man of Wa<obscured></obscured>
which brought your Petitioner to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo783">England</rs>
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a List of the Evidence Material<lb></lb>
for your Petitioner on the Trial of this Indictment whilst the said Captain Wicky remained on the said Court, in his Majesties<lb></lb>
Service, and requested they may be brought home in the said Ship, in order to your Petitioner Trial, and which your Petitioner<lb></lb>
humbly begs leave to shew he might have done, had he thought fitt</p>
<p n="532">That in January Session last, an Indictment was preferred and found against your <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ554">Petitioner</rs>
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on a Special<lb></lb>
Commission refused for that purpose pursuant<obscured></obscured>
Statute (the offence if any being committed in parts beyond the Seas) to<lb></lb>
which your Petitioner pleaded not Guilty but on account of your Petitioners Witness being absent as aforesaid in some of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Forts on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo784">Gold coast</rs>
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, his Majestys Attorney General on the part of Government undertook in the same Session to<lb></lb>
send out a Ship for them, and the Grampress Man of<obscured></obscured>
was according dispatched and is since returned without them, altho' your<lb></lb>
Petitioner delivered at the same time into Court a list the same Witnesses of which Captain Wicky had before had a Copy, when on<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo785">Coast of Africa</rs>
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, and who your Petitioner verily believes may have been produced, had due diligence been used for that purpose</p>
<p n="533">That the Witnesses named in the said Lists are material and of great Consequence on the part of your Petitioner,<lb></lb>
and without whose Testimony he cannot safely take his<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="534">That also from the length of this your<obscured></obscured>
has been here, has lost, by Death, one of his Material Witness (Dortor Ormsby)<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
to be Dangerous all of which<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="535">And your Petitioner humbly begs lease her to shew into this honorable Court that he cannot but consider his case as<lb></lb>
uncommonly hard and oppressive, his property having been most violent manner Seized and Sequedred, his Person imprisoned closely in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo786">Newgate</rs>
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upwards of twelve Months, his Witness who are material prove his Innocence, with held by Negligence or design, and being entirely in the<lb></lb>
Person of his prosecutors may be the means of his Imprisonment for Life, the uncertainty of their Arrival being apparent by a Letter your Petitioner hath<lb></lb>
received a few days ago, from <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n535-1">Philip Stephens</rs>
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Esquire Security to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in the Words and figures following</p>
<p n="536"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sir</note>
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"Admiralty Office 12th, October 1784<lb></lb>
"In answer to your Letter of the 7th. instant I am Commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquiant you that on the<lb></lb>
"17th of May last the Termagant was ordered to proceed to April in order to bring to Spithread the Persons you desired as Witness. to attend your Trior</p>
<p n="537">I am<lb></lb>
Sir<lb></lb>
Your very humble <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ555">Servant</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n537-1">Php. Stephens</rs>
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<p n="538"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ556">Capn.</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15095_n538-1">Kenneth Mackenzie</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15095_geo787">Newgate</rs>
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</note>
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That your <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15095_occ557">Petitioner</rs>
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lastly begs leaves to shew into this Honorable Court that thro' his Sufferings and Confinement together with an Ill<lb></lb>
State of Health, and violent Scorbutic and other disorders organised thereby your Petitioner hath been very near losing and is now in danger of<lb></lb>
his Life and he humble request Mr.<obscured></obscured>
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