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, tried
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received sentence of Death for the same,
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and you having by Certificate under your
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Hand humbly recommended Him to the
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Thing as a fit object of His Royal Mercy,
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on Condition that he the said Joseph
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Freeman be kept to hard Labour for
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the Term of Five years, in raising Sand,
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