Lot 4455

Description

Free Pardon, 3 June 1834, to Mark Riddle Thompkins, a Master Mariner convicted of perjury in the Criminal Court of the colony of New South Wales, hand-signed and wax seal affixed at Government House, Sydney by Richard Bourke, Captain General Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies and Vice Admiral of the same, also signed by the Colonial Secretary, the Governor, Alexander McLeay; an historic document bearing the signature of two significant individuals in Australia's colonial history. The wax seal is in pristine condition and the document is very fine. (3)

Together with profile of Sir Richard Bourke and contemporary newspaper accounts of Thompkin's trial.