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Report of W F Boteler, Recorder of the City of Canterybury on 1 collective petition...

Catalogue reference: HO 47/63/8

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This record is about the Report of W F Boteler, Recorder of the City of Canterybury on 1 collective petition... dating from 1822 July 27 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 47/63/8
Date
1822 July 27
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Report of W F Boteler, Recorder of the City of Canterybury on 1 collective petition (7 people, including the prosecutors) on behalf of George Couthem convicted at the City of Canterbury Quarter Sessions on 15 July 1822 of stealing corn and chaff, value 1/1 on 22 May 1822 property of John Clements, Joseph Nicholson, Robert Noyes and John Jeffrey. Evidence supplied by John Clements of Nicholson, Noyes and Jeffrey, coach masters. There are covering letters from Boteler and J P Lewis. Boteler states that the prisoner has been tried before at Canterbury for passing bad money. Grounds for clemency: sentence passed was too severe for the crime. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation (exemplorary sentence passed). Recommendation: 1 years imprisonment in the city gaol. Annotated: '30 July 1822 To be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction at Canterbury for 12 calendar Ms' [months] and 'Pard [Pardon] prep [prepared] 2 August'. Folios 94-103.

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Language
English
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