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475 humbly prayeth your honnours to become Gracious Intercessors to his Majestie for his Pardon by representing to his Maj.ty how Great a measure of misfortune and how little of Malice there was in the first occasions (on his part) of that unhappy crime by which will appeare at once your honnours Great Seal towards the fulfilling the rule of the written Law and also your Christian and Charitable disposition in Mediateing for such whose misfortune (more then Malice) has made them Lyable to the Laws most heavy censures it is a favour which your Pet.rs hopes (grounded upon your honnours Generosity and Humanity) have promised him and the confirmation of it by your honnours will for ever engage your honnours pet.r to acknowledge the Greatness of such a Benefice And to Pray &c Geo Talbot To the Right hon.ble his Maj.tys Justices of Oyer and Terminer now sitting at James Citty in his Maj.tys Dom.n of Virginia George Talbot of Cecill County in his Majesties Province of Maryland Humbly presenteth That in his late arraignm.t and tryall for felony haveing most readily submitted to your honnours jurisdiction and your supplicant thereupon found guilty but humbly conceiving there are some Points of Law from your honnours commission and from the Indictment and Process thereupon And Councill being assigned to your Supplicant to assist him in case such points of Law as he should offer should be accepted and allowed by your honnours He doth in all Humility humbly offer That your honnours have (by the commission of Oyer and Terminer directed to your honnours full power and authority to hear and determine all Treasons felonies &c within or without the bounds and Liberties of Virginia but that all such tryalls and determinations shall be according to the Laws and Customes of his Maj.tys Kingdom of England as by the said commission in most Plain and Express words doth and may appear and therefore (Ought) |
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