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DS about Convicts and their transportation, Signed by King George IV

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Our Will and Pleasure is
and We do hereby Order and Direct that the
Male Convicts named in the margin now
confined under Sentence or Order of Transporta-
tion, in the Gaols respectively set against
their Names, if upon being examined by an
experienced Surgeon or Apothecary, they
shall be found free from any Pestilential or
Infectious Distempers, and fit to be removed
from the said Gaols, be Conveyed on board the
Hulks in the River Thames, and there delivered
to the Superintendent or the Overseer of the
said Hulks, where they are to remain until
their Sentences shall be carried into effect, or
they shall be otherwise disposed of according
to Law; And We do hereby Charge and Command

[List of Names on the Left Margin]:
Berks
Wm Perry

Durham
Jos Wheeler
Ralph Row
Jos Dixon

Warwick
Wm Oliver
Thos Holtland

The Hulks
Wm Taylor

Liverpool
Rd Evans
Wm Grace
Josh Blunt

 

Docketed on back:

Our Right Trusty and Wellbeloved Councillor
Robert Peel, one of Our Principal Secretaries
of State, to Notify This Our Order to all
Persons whom the same may concern.
Given at Our Court at Carlton House the
5th Day of September 1823 in the Fourth
Year of Our Reign

George IV (12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death in 1830. At the time of his accession to the throne, he was acting as prince regent for his father, King George III, having done so since 5 February 1811 during his father's final mental illness.

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