Document: Petition of William Hallet for remission of the sentence of banishment pronounced against him

[Copie. The humble petition off William Hallett inhabitant off Vlissinge vnto the

Honnorable Governor Generall and Councel off the New Netherlands.][i]

Right Honnourable, you[r poore petitioner haveing received the [sentence off banish

ment and beinge thereby much disenabled from makeinge the best advantadge off th[at

little estate I have left, and beinge b[ound

in Consience to looke vnto the maintain[ance off my family, which might suffer

much, iff my suddine departure should be[e exacted, for these Reasons Right Honnourable [ I am boulde to sollicite ijour Lordshipps

that ijou would bee Pleased to remit pa[ ]

bij and take off my banishment, which requ[est iff ijour Honnors Please to graunt, ijour humble [ petitioner shal ever Remaine thankful and [ serviceable unto his Power, (was underwritten) From Flishinge this 26th William Hallett. Gb: 1656.

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