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
1 collective petition (131 people of Saddleworth, Yorkshire) on behalf of John Taylor...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/63/6
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- HO 47/63/6
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1822 April
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 collective petition (131 people of Saddleworth, Yorkshire) on behalf of John Taylor convicted (with James Schofield, George Schofield and Thomas Hadfield) at the 'last' Chester Assizes of the highway robbery of James Sawlow. There is 'A Plan of the Turnpike Road from Peter Shaw's Mill in Tintwistle in the County Palatine of Chester to the Canal Bridge near of Shawhall in Saddleworth, in the County of York and the Country Adjoining' by W Bayliffe, dated 5 April 1822; sworn statements from John Cain, tailor of 'Ashton under Line' [Ashton under Lyne]; Lydia Bayley, John Roberts, clothier, Maria Buckley, wife of Henry Buckley, clothier, William Winterbottom, woollen slubber, William Radcliffe, clothier, Thomas Haslam, hostler and George Johnson, draper. Grounds for clemency: The prisoner was convicted on circumstantial evidence only, all of those convicted have an alibi, the prisoner had no financial means to defend himself, is of good character and has a wife and five children to support. Initial sentence: death, commuted to transportation for life. Folios 79-85. See also HO 47/63/7, folios 86-94.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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