Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769. 269

Ordered that the Consideration of this Matter be postponed. :
Read the following Petition of James Richard, of Baltimore
County, Convicted of Larceny at the last November Court,
held in and for the said County, for which he was Sentenced
to be Whipp'd and stand in the Pillory.

To His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor of Mary-
land.

The Petition of James Richard of Baltimore County.
Most humbly sheweth to Your Excellency.
That your Unfortunate and most Unhappy Petitioner,
truely sensible of the great Mercy to him already shewn by
Your Excellency, craves leave in most humble manner to
acknowledge Your unmeritted Commiseration in this behalf.
Truly sensible thereof your wretched Petitioners grateful
Heart, must ever, and in its last most arduous Moments,
particularly remember the Mercyful Author of its future
Tranquility.
That Your wretched Petitioner, having been informed by
M^r Thomas Johnson Junior, (whose publick Promise he has to
wait on Your Excellency in his behalf.) Your Excellency
upon certain Conditions, may perhaps out of Regard to his
Relatives, and in tender Commiseration of his Age, be induced
to extend farther Mercy, thereby as well as by Your Excel-
lency's innumerable Acts of Clemency, encouraged, Your Pe-
titioner in most humble manner entreats he may find Mercy,
as that also should it be your Pleasure, he must in his old Age
seek for a livelihood in another Clime, such time as to your
Wisdom shall seem meet may be allowed him to settle his
Affairs, being involved in Sundry Suits, and his small Estate
Mortgaged to Mess" Ridgely and Taylor, who, seeing your
wretched Petitioner sunk into the Earth have by unjust Law
Proceedings endeavour'd to avail themselves thereof, and
would have succeeded (having procured unwarrantable Pos-
session) had not Providence influenced the true Friend of
Mankind, the Honourable Beale Bordley Esq^r to oppose such
their unjust Proceedings, against your otherwise defenceless
Petitioner. In tender Commiseration of your wretched Pe-
titioner's Relative, the worthy Family of Sir Theodore Jansen
Deceased, nearly allied to the Right honourable the Pro-
prietary of this Province; tho' now unworthy of them, by the
late Blemish he has received, worse to Your wretched Peti-
tioner than Death, suffer him in most humble manner to plead

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