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Minutes of H. M. Council, 1720-1742. |
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At a Council held at the Place aforesaid in His Majestys Town of Annapolis Royall on fryday the 23.d of September 1726
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The Honourable Presid.t & the Members y.t Were present Yesterday Mett According to Adjournment to Consider further of the Crime Committed by Robert Nicholes & of his Punishm.t for Such Misdemeanours
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The Board in Order thereunto Ordered the Said Robert Nicholes to be again Brought before them
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And being Asked Whether he had Any thing further to say for himself, or any Objections to Mhke why this Board Should not proceed to Give Sentence Against him
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The Said Robert Nicholes Replying in the Negative, that he had nothing further to Say nor to Object
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The Board therefore (there being no Other Court of J udicature as yet Erected in this His Majestys Province, then ye Council for the Administration of Justice & ye more Legall & formall prosecution of Such Crimes) Agreed y.t his Sentence & punishm.t Should be Viz.t
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Robert Nicholes you being found Guilty by his Majestys Council for this Province Of [172] of the Crime wherewith thou art Charged by the Honourable Law.r Armstrong L.t Governor and Commander in Chief of this his Majestys Province of Nova Scotia
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The Punishm.t herefore Inflicted on thee is to Sitt upon Gallowes three Days, half an hour each Day, with a Rope about thy Neck and a paper upon your Breast Whereon shall Writt in Capitall Letters AUDACIOUS VILLAIN And afterwards thou are to be Whipt at a carts tail from the Prison up to the Uppermost house of the Cape & from thence back again to the Prison house Receiving Each hundred paces five Stripes Upon your bare Back with a Catt of Nine tails and then thou art to be turn'd over for a Soldier
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Robert Nicholes ordered to be put 3 days on a Gallows & whipt. |
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Orderd y.t the Said Sentence of the Board be Read to yo Prisoner
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