1 individual petition (Theophilus Barnes, on behalf of Teale) and 1 collective petition...

1 individual petition (Theophilus Barnes, on behalf of Teale) and 1 collective petition (the prisoners Teale and Cumberland) on behalf of Thomas Teale, farmer and parish officer (overseer of the poor); and Sarah Cumberland, wife of Thomas Cumberland, tried (with Hannah Stringer and George Etherington) and convicted at the at the 'last' Yorkshire Assizes/Court of King's Bench, for conspiracy to charge John Haigh with being the father of a bastard child of Hannah Stringer of Castleford in Yorkshire. Evidences supplied by John Haigh, Hannah Stringer, James Orrvin, magistrate; Samuel Lee, Hannah Hall, John Godfrey, ------ Leake, John Prince, George Ainsley, Mary Bellass, midwife; Ellen Holmes, Sarah Cumberland junior, daughter of the prisoner; John Shay, William Walker, Mrs Lester, Mary Pennington, Peter Wilson, Thomas Oxley, Edward Trueman, the Reverend Richard Thompson and John Fisher. Two affidavits were supplied to the court on behalf of Thomas Teale (included within the documents) by the Reverend Theophilus Barnes and Frederick Silvester North Douglas [Lord Glenbervie]. There are covering letters to the affidavits. The prosecutor obtained a nolli prosequi for admitting the defendant Stringer to give evidence. Grounds for clemency: previous good character, Hannah Stringer (the woman who had the child) was of 'lose character and conduct', that Stringer had 'connections' with several criminals and that Teale had already lost £600 defending himself against the charge. Folios 273-284.