Report of W Best on 1 individual petition (Lady Warwick) and 1 collective petition...

Report of W Best on 1 individual petition (Lady Warwick) and 1 collective petition (256 people of Leamington Priors, Warwickshire) on behalf of William Judd, butcher, convicted at the Warwick Assizes on 15 April [1822] for uttering forged bank notes to [-] Dodd and others [not named] between 9 February and 5 March [1822]. There is a letter from Best [mostly illegible]; a letter from Peel to George IV stating that Best's report is not legible and he has had a copy made [included] and that the prisoner has been recommended by Lady Warwick but Peel is of the opinion that no mercy should be given; a letter from Sir Andrew Barnard on behalf of George IV at the Pavilion, Brighton asking the reasons why a petition from Lady Warwick has been forwarded by Best even though Best thinks the law should take its course; a letter from Lady Warwick; a letter from Peel to Lady Warwick advising her that Peel cannot advise the king to remit the sentence; a letter from Warwick to Peel requesting that the petition is returned so that she may forward it to the king herself; and a letter [on tissue paper, faded mostly illegible]. Initial sentence: death. Grounds for clemency: the jury recommended mercy, of previous good character and the misery of the prisoner's wife and 5 children. Recommendation: no mercy. Folios 149-170.