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- Bonded 14 yrs Mar 1736
Reprieved for transportation (to the New Word), origin Wiltshire.
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Benjamin Hiscitt otherwise Hiscott and William Webb : to be transported for the term of fourteen years pursuant to the Secretary of State's letter.‘ (p120)
Whereas Henry Cater and Samuel Haynes were at this Session of Goal delivery convicted of several felonies and intituled to the Benefitt of Clergy and were ordered and adjudged to be transported to One of his Majestie’s Colonies and Plantations in America for the term of seven years according to an Act of Parliament made in the fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George intituled an Act for the further preventing Robbery Burglary and other felonies and for the more effectuall Transportation of felons and unlawfull Exporters of Wool and for declareing the Law upon some points relateing to Pyrates, And Whereas Benjamin Hiscitt otherwise Hiscott and William Webb were at a former Session-of Goal delivery held in and for this County convicted of felony for which they were excluded the Benefitt of Clergy and to whom his Majesty has been graciously pleased to extend his royal Mercy‘ on Condition of Transportation to some part of America for the Term of fourteen years and such Intention of Mercy hath been signified by the Right Honorable William Lord Harrington one of his Majestie’s Principal Secretarys of State Pursuant to the Directions of the said Act Now,’ in pursuance of an Act of Parliament made in the Sixth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the further preventing Robbery, Burglary, and other Felonies, and for the more efectuall Transportation of Felons. This Court doth nominate and appoint John Eyles, Thomas Beach, Thomas Cooper, Thomas Bennet of Norton, Thomas Long, Matthew Pitts and Richard Payne, esquires, seven of his Majesty’s justices of the Peace of and for this County or any two of them, to contract with any Person or Persons for the Performance of the Transportation of the said felons and to order and take care that such Contractor, or Contractors, do give suflicient Security to the Satisfaction of the said justices to be taken by Bond in the Name ofthe Clerk ofthe Peace ofthe said County,' that he or they will transport, or cause to be transported directually, the said felons conveyed to him or them by such Contract to one of His Majesty’s Colonies or Plantations in America, according to the Directions of the said recited Acts ,' which Security is to be given before the said felons be delivered over to such Contractor or Contractors, or their Assigns .' And the said contract being made, and the said Security given to the Clerk of the Peace, as is required by the last mentioned Act, the said justices are to cause the said felons to be delivered by the Goaler, in whose custody they shall be, to the Person or Persons contracting for them or to his or their Assigns .' And the said Contract and Security are to be Certifyed‘ by the said justices of the Peace to the next Court of General Goal Delivery, to be held in and for the said County.
paid.
Delivered to Mr. Pitts. (p120-121)
The letter from the Justices of Assize to Lord Hardwicke, Chief Justice of Kings’ Bench, recommending Hiscitt and Webb with four other persons convicted at the Westem Circuit Lent Assizes ‘ as fitt objects of your Majestie’s Royal Mercy on condition of being transported ’ is in Public Record Office, State Papers Domestic, George II [S.P.36] Vol. 38, no 31, dated 6 Feb. 1736. Webb was attainted for horse-stealing and Hiscitt for breaking in a dwelling-house in the daytime and stealing 5s. (p121)
For the diet and guarding of Benjamin Hiscitt, otherwise Hiscott, and William Webb under sentence of death and reprieved for transportation at 2s. 6d. each per week, Jan. I9 to Apr. 7. 2l. I5s. ; (p150)
WILTSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS AND ASSIZES, I 736 EDITED BY J. P. M. FOWLE, p150
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