Proclamation for Suppressing of Pirates

Carmarthen appeared in the House of Lords, bearing in his hand a parchment signed by William.

It was an act of grace for political offences.

Between an act of grace originating with the Sovereign, and an act of indemnity originating with the Estates of the Realm, there are some remarkable distinctions.

An act of indemnity passes through all the stages through which other laws pass, and may during its progress be amended by either House.

an act of grace is received with peculiar marks of respect is read only once by the lords and once by the commons and must be either rejected altogether or accepted as it stands william had not ventured to submit such an act to the preceding parliament but in the new parliament he was certain of a majority the minority gave no trouble the stubborn spirit which had during two sessions obstructed the progress of the bill of indemnity had been at length broken by defeats and humiliations Both houses stood up uncovered while the Act of Grace was read, and gave their sanction to it without one dissentient voice.

There would not have been this unanimity had not a few great criminals been excluded from the benefits of the amnesty.

Foremost among them stood the surviving members of the High Court of Justice which had sate on Charles I.

Even the criminals, who were by name excluded, had little to fear.

Escaped prisoners told stories of being hoisted up b- by the arms and drubbed or thrashed with a drawn cutlass by Kidd.

In 1698, the Act of Grace offered to pardon pirates with a few notable exceptions, and Kidd was one of the ones that they said would not be pardoned.

Hmm.

And this was because of his political party.

Carmarthen appeared in the House of Lords, bearing in his hand a parchment signed by William.

It was an act of grace for political offences.

Between an act of grace originating with the Sovereign, and an act of indemnity originating with the Estates of the Realm, there are some remarkable distinctions.

An act of indemnity passes through all the stages through which other laws pass, and may during its progress be amended by either House.

an act of grace is received with peculiar marks of respect is read only once by the lords and once by the commons and must be either rejected altogether or accepted as it stands william had not ventured to submit such an act to the preceding parliament but in the new parliament he was certain of a majority the minority gave no trouble the stubborn spirit which had during two sessions obstructed the progress of the bill of indemnity had been at length broken by defeats and humiliations Both houses stood up uncovered while the Act of Grace was read, and gave their sanction to it without one dissentient voice.

There would not have been this unanimity had not a few great criminals been excluded from the benefits of the amnesty.

Foremost among them stood the surviving members of the High Court of Justice which had sate on Charles I.

Even the criminals, who were by name excluded, had little to fear.