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May it please Your Excellency 19* September 1767.

At his Lordship's Court of Oyer and Terminer and Goal
Delivery held for Baltimore County for the present Circuit,
one Patrick Cane Mullen was Convicted, on full positive Proof
by one Witness whose Testimony was in Circumstances cor-
roborated by other Witnesses, of a Robbery on the King's
Highway, a Transcript of the Record whereof is ordered to
be laid before your Excellency.
The Prisoner is known by the sitting Judge to be the Person
who, at the last Frederick Assizes was in Custody of the Sher-
iff on a Suspicion of Horse Stealing, having been committed
therefor by the Warrant of a Justice of the Peace, but dis-
charged by the Court for want of Evidence.
We are Sir, Your Excellency's most
To Obedient humble Servants
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r J. Hepburn
Governor of Maryland. J Beale Bordley

To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r

Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Province of
Maryland.

The humble Petition of Patrick Cane Mullen of Baltimore
County now languishing in Goal
Most humbly sheweth
That at the last Court of Assize for this County your Peti-
tioner was in due form arraigned and convicted of Robbery,
before the honourable the Judges thereof and received Sen-
tence of Death accordingly.
That previous to his Trial, to prevent his sinking under the
Rigour of the Law he did receive a Glass or two of Spirit,
which as he has been informed Occasioned him to behave bold
and amiss, to the displeasure of the honourable Court of
which he heartily Repents.
That your Petitioner is duly sensible of his Guilt Penitent
and sorrowful is become stedfastly resolved and fixed upon an
Amendment of Life, to follow laborious Exercise for his
livelihood and the good of Society, and to make full Repara-
tion to mankind in general by commencing an useful Member,
for the horrid and odious Crime, against the Laws of which

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he now stands legally Convicted.
Your Petitioner most humbly prays your Excellency to give
Ear to his Cause, That Pity and Compassion may plead it for
him, That your Excellencys Pleasure may be to grant him a
little time to carry his Resolution before recited into Execu-
tion, That should he never be guilty of the like again but

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