Whereas William Higgins Francis Christopher James Gosse als Newberry and Margaret Wish were convicted at this Session of Goal Delivery of severall felonies and intituled to the benefit of Clergie and were ordered and adjudged by this Courtto be transported to some of his Maties Collonies 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 present Majesty instituted an Act for the further preventing Robbery Burglary and other felonies and for the more effectual Transportation of felons and unlawful Exporters of Wool and for declaring the Law upon some points relating to Pirates

And whereas William Burch Harvey Bear William Moore William Edgar Gilbert Bending and Thomas Silly were at former sessions of Goal Delivery held in and for this County convicted of diverse felonies for which they were excluded the benefit of Clergy and to whom his Majesty has been graciously pleased to extend his Royall 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 James Craggs Esqe one of his Majesties Principall Secretarys of State according to the directions of the said Act Now in pursuance of a late Act of Parliament made in the sixth year of his Majesties reign instituted an Act for the further preventing Robbery Burglary and other felonies and for the more effectual Transportation of felons

This Court doth nominate and appoint Sir George Chudleigh Bart Theodore Tanner Esqe Samuel Cooke Esqe and William Hull Esqe four of his Majesties Justices of the Peace of and for this County or any three of them to contract with any person or persons for the performance of the Transportation of the said Offenders and to order and take care that such Contractor or Contractors do give sufficient security to the satisfaction of the said Justices to be taken by bond in the Name of the Clerk of the Peace of the said County That he or they will transport or cause to be transported effectually the said Offenders conveyed to him or them by such Contract to some of his Majesties Collonies or Plantations in America according to the directions of the said recited Acts

which Security is to be given before such Offendor or Offendors be delivered over to the said Contractor or Contractors or their Assignes And the said Contracts 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 Offenders or such of them for whom the said Contract or Contracts shall be made to be delivered by the respective Goalers in whose custody they are or shall be to the Person or Persons contracting for them or to his or their Assignes And the said Contracts and Security are to be certified by the said Justices of the Peace to the next Court of Generall Goal Delivery to be held for the said County