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Item (folio 144) extracted from HO 47/14/23
Catalogue reference: HO 47/14/23/1
Date: 1792
Item (folio 144) extracted from HO 47/14/23
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Report of the John Silvester Recorder of London 1collective petition (13 people of...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/50/31
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- 1812 Oct 1
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Report of the John Silvester Recorder of London 1collective petition (13 people of Hythe including an MP; the mayor and Sarah Elizabeth Pilcher - the first wife) on behalf John Pilcher, publican convicted at the Old Bailey on 23 May 1812 of bigamy by marrying Sarah Elizabeth Langhorn on 23 May 1798 at St Olave`s Church, Silver Street/or St Alban's [Recorders notes and petition differ] and then marrying Elizabeth Talmarsh Parke on 13 January 1805 his first wife still being alive. Evidences supplied by: Joseph Lee, Joseph Parke, Elizabeth`s father and Richard Groves. Grounds for clemency: Sarah had eloped and lived with another man, taking some of Pilcher`s property with her, it was reported that Sarah had died so he married Elizabeth, the prisoner married both for love, he is of good character and industrious. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: free pardon. Folios 193-196.
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- English
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