Report of Daniel Parker Coke on 1 collective petition (9 people including the prosecutors,...

Report of Daniel Parker Coke on 1 collective petition (9 people including the prosecutors, an acting magistrate and late masters) on behalf of James Travis of Worksop, boatman tried (with Francis Baker and Thomas Mosley) and convicted at the Derby Midsummer Quarter Sessions held at Chesterfield on 5 August 1812 of stealing malt from a canal boat property of Dethick Smith & Co, whilst the malt was in transit between Worksop and Chesterfield. There is a account of the trial. Evidences supplied by Thomas John son, partner in Dethick, Smith & Co; Samuel Turner, William Hollingworth, George Shellifoe[?], David Frost and Joseph North. Grounds for clemency: the prisoner was an inexperienced young man of 25 years, this is his first offence, comes from a respectable family, he has been brought up as a farmer but had lately taken a job on the canal, he had been intimidated from giving evidence against his fellow convicts Francis Baker and Thomas Mosley, who were old offenders and he has previously been honest and industrious until led into crime by Baker and Mosley. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: none made. Folios 254-263.