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Report of James Clarke, Recorder of Liverpool on 2 individual petitions (Charles...

Catalogue reference: HO 47/64/22

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HO 47/64/22
Date
1823 July
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Report of James Clarke, Recorder of Liverpool on 2 individual petitions (Charles Lawrence, Mayor of Liverpool; W [William] Huskisson, MP) and 1 collective petition (12 people, including W [William] Horner, chaplain of the Kirkdale House of Correction). on behalf of Michael Creamer, Irishman, convicted at the Liverpool Sessions in July 1823, for riot, arising out of one of the Orange Associations on 12 July 1823. The prisoner is held in the Kirkdale House of Correction. Grounds for clemency: the prisoner was the least culpable of the rioters, was caught up in the riot as he investigated the noise, has served 5 months of his sentence, is suffering from ill health, the prisoner is the only support to his mother and father and is of previous good character. Initial sentence: 6 months imprisonment. Recommendation: mercy. Annotated: '22 Dec 1823, Granted'. [William Huskisson was killed in 1830 at the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway]. Folios 242-248.

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