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<p n="249"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo226">St: James's</rs>
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<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15092_date18">6th: Febry 1781</rs>
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<p n="250">Sir,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n250-1">Joseph Freeman</rs>
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, who was at<lb></lb>
a Sessions holden at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo227">old Bailey</rs>
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, tried<lb></lb>
and convicted before you of Felony, and<lb></lb>
received sentence of Death for the same,<lb></lb>
but has since been respited, and is now<lb></lb>
a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15092_occ56">Prisoner</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo228">new Prison</rs>
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, Clerkenwell<lb></lb>
and you having by Certificate under your<lb></lb>
Hand humbly recommended Him to the<lb></lb>
Thing as a fit object of His Royal Mercy,<lb></lb>
on Condition that he the said Joseph<lb></lb>
Freeman be kept to hard Labour for<lb></lb>
the Term of Five years, in raising Sand,<lb></lb>
Soil and Gravel from and cleaning the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo229">River Thames</rs>
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, and other Services for the<lb></lb>
Benefit of the Navigation of the said<lb></lb>
River, under the Management and<lb></lb>
Direction of the overseer or overseers<lb></lb>
appointed in pursuance of an act of<lb></lb>
Parliament passed in the Sixteenth year<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n250-3">His Majesty</rs>
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's Reign, entitled, an act to<lb></lb>
"authorize for a limited Time the<lb></lb>
"Punishment by hard Labour of offenders,<lb></lb>
who</p>
<p n="251">Mr. Recorder of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo230">City of London</rs>
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