Middlesex .

These are to Certify that at the Delivery of the Kings
Gaol of Newgate holden for the County of Middlesex at Justice
Hall in the Old Bailey in the Suburbs of the City of London on
Wednesday the tenth day of December in the twenty fourth year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great
Britain Etc Before Robert Peckham< no role > Esquire Mayor of the City of
London , James Adair< no role > one of his Majesty's Serjeants at Law Recorder
of the said City and others their fellows Justices of our said Lord the
King assigned to deliver the said Gaol of Newgate of the Prisoners
therein being John Wright< no role > of the age of Forty five years, John
Fuller< no role > of the age of Fifty six years, Robert Steward< no role > of the age of
twenty one years, Thomas Sutton< no role > of the age of twenty years, Dennis
Shehan< no role > of the age twenty nine years, Richard Sharpling< no role > of the age
of thirty years, George Shipley< no role > of the age of twenty seven years
William Templer< no role > of the age of forty years, Robert Bampton< no role > of
the age of twenty years and Michael Hasterly< no role > of the Age of twenty
two years who were at several former Sessions of the Delivery
of the King's said Gaol of Newgate holden for the County of
Middlesex aforesaid at Justice hall aforesaid Convicted of several felonies
for which they were by Law liable to suffer death without benefit
of Clergy unto whom his Majesty hath since been graciously
pleased to extend his Royal mercy on Condition of their being
severally kept to hard Labour in manner hereafter mentioned
(to wit) the said John Wright< no role > , John Fuller< no role > , Robert Steward< no role > , Thomas
Sutton< no role > , Dennis Shehan< no role > and Richard Sharpling< no role > for the term of
three years, the said George Shipley< no role > , William Templer< no role > and
Robert Bampten for the term of Two years and the said
Michael Hasterly< no role > for the term of one year and such Intention of
mercy having been notified in writing by the Right Honourable
Sir Frederick North< no role > Knight commonly called Lord North one of
his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to the Court first
above mentioned, the said Convicts before named were severally
Ordered and Adjudged to be punished by being kept on Board
Ships