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Clemency

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Criminal justice, Administration of
Executive power

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  • A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail. Soft ground etching after Henry Alken.

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    By the King. A proclamation to summon the persons therein named, who sate, gave judgment, and assisted in that horrid and detestable murder of His Majesties royal father of blessed memory, to appear and render themselves within fourteen days, under pain of being excepted from pardon.

    England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) | Date: 1660
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    A man about to be executed in publc receives a pardon at the last minute; representing a work of art which has a striking composition but is not finished in detail. Soft ground etching after Henry Alken.

    Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851. | Date: 1824 | Reference: 31590i
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    A man seeking pardon from a queen (?). Mezzotint after L. Rubio.

    Rubio, Luigi. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 3185974i
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    Fiction in the archives : pardon tales and their tellers in sixteenth-century France / Natalie Zemon Davis.

    Davis, Natalie Zemon, 1928-2023 | Date: 1987
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    The second feast of Esther: Haman bows before Esther, seeking her pardon for his plan to kill her and all other Jews; King Ahasuerus returns to the room in rage and misinterprets his action. Engraving, 17--.

    | Date: 1700-1799 | Reference: 3186581i

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