Australia Pardon.- George III (King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, and King of Hanover, 1738-1820) Pardon of John Raynand and John Bercham, convicted of of highway robbery and sentenced to death at the Norfolk Assizes, the sentence commuted to "their being transported for & during the Term of their natural lives to the Eastern Coast of New South Wales... or... Islands adjacent", granting them a pardon "on Condition of serving as Soldiers in the East India Company Service", D.s. "George R" and "Grenville", manuscript, 2pp., paper seal remounted, incomplete at end and with conjugate leaf removed, folds, browned, slightly faded, repaired, folio, 3rd February 1791.
Australia Pardon.- George III (King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, and King of Hanover, 1738-1820) Pardon of John Raynand and John Bercham, convicted of of highway robbery and sentenced to death at the Norfolk Assizes, the sentence commuted to "their being transported for & during the Term of their natural lives to the Eastern Coast of New South Wales... or... Islands adjacent", granting them a pardon "on Condition of serving as Soldiers in the East India Company Service", D.s. "George R" and "Grenville", manuscript, 2pp., paper seal remounted, incomplete at end and with conjugate leaf removed, folds, browned, slightly faded, repaired, folio, 3rd February 1791.
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