Item
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
Item
Report of George Whiddon on a statement by Richard Jenkinson concerning the alleged...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/62/16
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- HO 47/62/16
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1822 Nov 5
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Report of George Whiddon on a statement by Richard Jenkinson concerning the alleged ill treatment of James Slack whilst in prison (tried with James Slack Mould, Thomas Slack and another [unnamed]) and convicted at the Staffordshire Easter Sessions in 1822 for conspiring to hire and brief John Garner Mountjoy to kill and murder Joseph Slack. A dispute had arisen in the Slack family over an illegitimate child and holdings of land, [details are given in Jenkinson's petition. Jenkinson was confined with the prisoners because of a default of bail in a case involving the estate of Sir George Jerningham, see also HO 47/62/2] There are letters from James Slack [x2]; Whidden; statements from William Panton; Joseph Paulson; David Mould [x2]; John Hulme with Joseph Mill, Martha Bart, Benjamin Kid[?], John Hird and John Langley, chaplain to the gaol and house of correction of Stafford; and a certificate of illness and death of James Slack from Richard Hughes, surgeon; and a letter from Thomas Bratton, governor of Stafford County Prison. Folios 243-279.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals
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