HIS
MAJESTIES
Most
Gracious
and
FREE-PARDON
,
TO
Several
Prisoners
in
Newgate
,
as
the
Sessions
of
the
Peace
,
and
Oyer
,
and
Terminer
,
and
Gaol-Delivery
,
Held
for
the
City
of
London
,
and
County
of
Middlesex
,
on
Thursday
the
27th
.
Day
of
August
,
1685.
And
in
the
first
Year
of
his
Majesties
Reign
.
WHereas
at
several
Sessions
,
last
past
,
held
for
the
City
of
London
,
and
County
of
Middlesex
,
divers
Criminals
had
received
Sentence
of
Death
and
Transportation
,
it
pleased
His
Most
Sacred
Majesty
out
of
his
Inherent
Clemency
peculiarly
Resident
in
his
Royal
Line
,
in
Imitation
of
his
Mercifully
Famous
,
and
ever
to
be
Remembred
Ancestors
to
extend
the
favour
of
His
Free
and
Gracious
Pardon
to
the
several
Prisoners
here
under
Named
.
In
order
whereunto
the
Right
Honourable
Sir
James
Smith
,
Kt.
Lord
Mayor
of
the
City
of
London
,
Sir
Thomas
Jenner
,
Kt.
one
of
his
Majesties
Serjeants
at
Law
,
and
Recorder
of
the
said
City
together
with
others
of
the
Worshipful
the
Aldermen
of
the
said
City
,
the
same
Day
about
Four
of
the
Clock
in
the
Afternoon
,
did
call
over
the
several
Prisoners
here
under
Named
,
for
whom
a
General
Pardon
was
there
Read
,
which
they
severally
on
their
respective
Knees
all
Pleaded
;
which
the
Court
was
pleased
to
Allow
of
;
and
accordingly
the
said
Malefactors
were
thereby
Pardoned
,
viz.
-
Elizabeth
Ratcliffe
-
William
Rawson
-
Eleanor
Michel
-
John
Thomson
alias
Silk
-
John
Price
-
John
Pilborow
-
Thomas
Saltmarsh
-
Hugh
Jones
-
Sarah
Bell
-
Elizabeth
Hill
-
Ralph
Watson
-
Richard
Mayden
-
Joanna
Pell
-
Ann
Dye
-
Jane
Simpcoe
-
Christopher
Orchard
-
Richard
James
-
Charles
Midleton
-
Benjamin
Crooke
-
Lionel
Fenwick
-
Thomas
Parlow
-
Edward
Parlow
-
William
Lippey
-
Charlas
Davis
-
Noell
Green
-
Edward
Little
-
Mary
Cary
-
Mary
Rapire
-
Daniel
Mackrow
-
Thomas
Brown