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And with regard to the operation of Pardons in general, your Lordship
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will be able to Judge of it by the two following cases.
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About three Years ago Mr Wood of the Exchequer the occupier of the
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Uxbridge
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and of the Fishery there, found
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himself under the necessity of keeping at a great expence, a constant Watch
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to prevent his Fish from being Stole, Two Men were detected in Stealing
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Pike and Cray Fish and tried and found Guilty before me and
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sentenced toTransportation they applied in the usual way by a Petition
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signed by the Minister and Churchwardens and some of the inhabitants
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of the Parish were pardoned and Mr Wood necessitated thought to his
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great detriment and loss, to quit his house
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About the same time
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William Rooke
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was tried before me for extorting
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by threats of a charge of Sodomy; he was convicted
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and sentenced to Imprisonment; but was pardoned, and last Session
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he was tried before me and convicted of a like Offence against another
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My Duty obliges me to give this information and farther to
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recur to a case or two which may possibly dispose your Lordship to
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think that the complaints of the Magistrates are not without foundation
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One Erskine who had returned from transportation and been
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convicted of obtaining Money under false pretences was again
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Sentenced to transportation: During his imprisonment he was visited
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by a woman in a Chariot with Coronets, and told in the hearing of
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other prisioners not to be cast down, for that he might depend upon a
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pardon; and accordingly he was pardoned upon condition of
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transporting himself, and as I and every one else expected, he is
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returned. This I think the more extraordinary as I am informed
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from the best authority that the King expressed a desire to know
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the truth of Erskine's case
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But a case of more importance is that of
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Thomas Marten
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an
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Apothecary
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who being arrested by a Sheriffs Officer for Debt of
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twenty Pounds, stabbed the man in the belly with a knife with which
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he was cutting Sasafras, and afterwards expressed his
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Sorrow
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that he had not killed him. He was sentenced to three Years
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