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Provincial Court Land Records, 1709-1719
Volume 720, Page 474   View pdf image
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       of his passion for which he most heartily beggd God and
       the kings pardon

       The Court then proceeded to Judgment and sentence of death
       was pronounced against the said Co.l George Talbot as the Law
       directs by M.r Auditor Bacon

                           To the right hon.ble his Maj.tys Justices of oyer &
             Terminer now sitting at James City in Virginia

                            The humble Petition of George Talbot
Most humble sheweth to your honnours That your Pet.r
       haveing been indicted in this hon.ble court for felony upon
       the express words of the statute in the first year of King
       James the first did with all due sumission testifie his respect
       to your honnours and to the commission by which you sitt
       and Pleaded Voluntarly by to the said indictm.t without
       entertaining any doubt or moveing any Question ag.t the
       Legality of your jurisdiction nor doth harbour any scruple
       of it he doth also further humble represent to your honn.rs
       how that he humbly hopes that he hath made appear
       to your honnours satisfaction how that although he be
       fallen within the Letter (and consequently within the
       mischief) to forfeit his life to his Majesty's Justice yet
       that his heart was free from all premeditated Malice in
       the death of that unfortunate Gentleman M.r Christopher
       Rousby, And consequently that your pet.r is not of so
       depraved a disposition as the foul Circumstance of Malice
       preprised doth prove the harbour thereof to be which
       all Humility Himself and his deplorable case to your
       honnours compassion humbly hopeing that by your
       means he may become the subject of his Majestys mercy
       and clemency which hath been extended to persons in farr
       harder circumstances than his are   Therefore he
                                                                         (humbly)


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