Folios 87-89. James Dawes to the King. Two petitions the first asking to be pardoned...

Folios 87-89. James Dawes to the King. Two petitions the first asking to be pardoned and released so that he may carry out his duties as executor of the will of his late father, a planter in Jamaica; the second that the remaining 15 months of his two year prison sentence be remitted on him giving security to 'transport himself immediately to Jamaica, and for his good behaviour according to the sentence passed upon him' by the Court of King's Bench. Certificate that the contents of the petition are true signed by John Sutton, James Dawkins, Henry Hicks, Henry Dawkins, Edward Morant, William Gale, Thomas Fuller and Henry Holloway. Note that folios 88 and 89 are out of sequence being between folios 59 and 60. [According to newspaper reports from November and December 1748 (British Newspaper Archive) Dawes and another were sentenced 28 November 1748].