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<p n="47">And with regard to the operation of Pardons in general, your Lordship<lb></lb>
will be able to Judge of it by the two following cases.</p>
<p n="48">About three Years ago Mr Wood of the Exchequer the occupier of the<lb></lb>
Manor-house at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50646_geo20">Denham</rs>
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near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50646_geo21">Uxbridge</rs>
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and of the Fishery there, found<lb></lb>
himself under the necessity of keeping at a great expence, a constant Watch<lb></lb>
to prevent his Fish from being Stole, Two Men were detected in Stealing<lb></lb>
Pike and Cray Fish and tried and found Guilty before me and<lb></lb>
sentenced toTransportation they applied in the usual way by a Petition<lb></lb>
signed by the Minister and Churchwardens and some of the inhabitants<lb></lb>
of the Parish were pardoned and Mr Wood necessitated thought to his<lb></lb>
great detriment and loss, to quit his house</p>
<p n="49">About the same time <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50646_n49-1">William Rooke</rs>
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was tried before me for extorting<lb></lb>
Money of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50646_occ10">Gentleman</rs>
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by threats of a charge of Sodomy; he was convicted<lb></lb>
and sentenced to Imprisonment; but was pardoned, and last Session<lb></lb>
he was tried before me and convicted of a like Offence against another<lb></lb>
person</p>
<p n="50">My Duty obliges me to give this information and farther to<lb></lb>
recur to a case or two which may possibly dispose your Lordship to<lb></lb>
think that the complaints of the Magistrates are not without foundation</p>
<p n="51">One Erskine who had returned from transportation and been<lb></lb>
convicted of obtaining Money under false pretences was again<lb></lb>
Sentenced to transportation: During his imprisonment he was visited<lb></lb>
by a woman in a Chariot with Coronets, and told in the hearing of<lb></lb>
other prisioners not to be cast down, for that he might depend upon a<lb></lb>
pardon; and accordingly he was pardoned upon condition of<lb></lb>
transporting himself, and as I and every one else expected, he is<lb></lb>
returned. This I think the more extraordinary as I am informed<lb></lb>
from the best authority that the King expressed a desire to know<lb></lb>
the truth of Erskine's case</p>
<p n="52">But a case of more importance is that of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50646_n52-1">Thomas Marten</rs>
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an<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50646_occ11">Apothecary</rs>
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who being arrested by a Sheriffs Officer for Debt of<lb></lb>
twenty Pounds, stabbed the man in the belly with a knife with which<lb></lb>
he was cutting Sasafras, and afterwards expressed his<del>desire</del>
Sorrow<lb></lb>
that he had not killed him. He was sentenced to three Years</p>
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