Note 84 — Chapter VIII · THE EXCISE SCHEME. 1732–3.
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Last Friday her Majesty was most graciously pleased to extend her mercy to William Bales, under order for transportation for fourteen years, who sometime since was condemned on the Black Act.—Daily Gazetteer, 26th July, 1736.
Her Majesty has been pleased to pardon the three following condemned to transportation for fourteen years—viz., Thomas Ricketts, for stealing a silver hilted sword, and Thomas Morris and John Pritchard, for housebreaking.—Daily Gazetteer, 7th August, 1736.
The day before the Court removed from Windsor to Richmond her Majesty gave £80 for discharging poor debtors confined in the town jail.—Daily Post, 19th October, 1730.