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NICHOLAS BAYARD. 539

have you any thing to say why sentence should not be pro-
nounced f””

The Prisoner. I have nothing more to offer, than what my
eounsel have offered, and what is contained in my last peti-
tion.

The Cammy Jusnice, I am sorry to find you so impenitent
of your crime, which is so heinous and abominable in the
sight of God and man. You have lately made reflections
upon the proceedings of this court against you as if it had
been a design to do the job; comparing your case to that of
Naboth’s vineyard. But I hope God will open your eyes,
that you may be convinced, and repent of the erime.

It is considered by the court here, that you be carried to
the place from whence you came; that from thence you be
drawn upon an burdle to the place of execution; that there
you be hanged by the neck, and being alive you be cut down
upon the earth, and that your bowels be taken out of your
belly, and your privy members be cut off, and you being
alive they be burnt before your face; and that your head be
ent off, and that your body be divided into four quarters; and
that your head and quarters be placed where our lord the
King ahall assign. And the Lord have merey upon your soul.

The Prisoner, I desire to know whether I have leave to
answer Your Honor’s speech, made before sentence?

The Cum Justicr. No.

The Prisoner. Then God’s will be done.

The sentence was not carried into execution. Applying for a
reprieve until the pleasure of the king might be known, it waa
granted to him, and, on the arrival of Lord Cornbury, be was
relessed. All was then reversed. Atwood, the chief justice, and
Weaver, the solicitor general, fled to England. Bayard was rein-

stated in all honor and estat ublic command, “as if no such
trial had been,” to by P a .

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