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Lib. C. B.
No. 20
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your Excellency's most Mercyful Predecessor's Goodness
been Blessed with a most Gracious Pardon of certain Offences
therein enumerated, but conditionally that your unhappy Peti-
tioner should depart the Province forty days after the date
thereof the usual Clause inserted in Pardons after being dis-
charged from his Imprisonment being omitted in the same
Your Petitioner having applied to Council was informed that
altho' the Clause aforesaid was omitted yet the Intent could
not be otherwise, because until discharged in due form by the
Sheriff the Fees of Prosecution for which he stood Committed
(as also in Actions of Debt) were paid and the most Gracious
Pardon aforesaid produced into Court for Allowance thereof
he with safety might well tarry 'till the forty days after the
requisites aforesaid were complied with Your Petitioner hav-
ing ever since caused not the least premeditated offence willing
to make use of the opportunity of setling his Affairs in great
Confusion thro' unforseen accidents, his Lands Mortgaged
in the Year Seventeen hundred and forty Eight as also lately
to the Honble J. B. Bordley Esqr most Intricate Accounts
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p. 99
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demanding his presence, Relying on the Council as above given
him, in daily expectation of a Brother's arrival (lately stopped
by the hand of Providence) to act in his behalf has at times
resided in your Excellency's Government not in defiance of
your Excellency, of my Lord's Honourable Council, nor of the
Laws of which too audacious presumption your unfortunate
Petitioner is incapable but with the intent only of saving out
of his almost destruction some trifle to support him hereafter
therefore he most humbly doth presume to hope that having
as yet no formal discharge as aforesaid nor the other
requisites as yet complyed with if unfortunately deluded by
the Council given him he shall find Commiseration in your
Excellency's Generous Breast, and not resentment, because
if he has unhappily caused offence it is very innocently and an
Act the which any rational being having his preservation in
view could not be guilty of. Your Excellency's unfortunate
Petitioner being extremely distressed for too many reasons to
be Illustrated is this his humble Petition doth with all due
Submission Implore your Mercy by the grant of a most Gra-
cious Pardon with some Short allowance of time finally to
adjust his Affairs hitherto by him unwarily neglected in ex-
pectation of the arrival of his Brother as aforesaid or such
other Relief as in your Wisdom deemed meet. And as in
Duty bound your Excellency's Petitioner shall ever pray.
James Richard.
Ordered by His Excellency the Governor with the Advice of
this Board that a Pardon issue in Behalf of the abovemen-
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