Report of Sir William Alexander, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, on 1 individual petition...

Report of Sir William Alexander, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, on 1 individual petition (Sam Smith, [Samuel Smith] Dean of Christchurch, Daventry) and 1 collective petition (37 signatures, including magistrates, churchwardens and inhabitants of Daventry) on behalf of Clement Clarke, labourer, convicted at the Summer Northampton Assizes, July 1826 of conspiracy to defraud. Grounds for clemency: Clerk was 'entirely under the influence of those by whom he was employed and did not derive any pecuniary advantage'; he pleaded guilty and was not tried; John Upton, road surveyor and Clerk's employer issued false documents and persuaded prisoner to do the same; Upton did not answer to his bail. Sentence: 6 months imprisonment. Recommendation: mercy. A note on the reverse of folio 114 states 'Will be discharged when he has been four months in prison. RP'.

Also included is a certificate/memorial of Sir Charles Abbott and Sir William Alexander on prisoners capitally convicted at the Northampton Assizes, according to the condition set against their names:

1. George Catherall, highway robbery, transportation for life.

2. Hugh Robinson, highway robbery, transportation for life.

3. Isaac Waters, burglary, transportation for life.

4. John Nicholls, burglary, transportation for life.

5. Thomas Ingram, burglary, transportation for life.

6. Thomas Ward, highway robbery, transportation for life.

7. John Peach, highway robbery, transportation for life.

8. James Brown, sheep stealing, transportation for life.

9. John Thorneycroft, housebreaking, transportation for 14 years.

10. William Friend, sheep stealing, transportation for 14 years.

11. James Stephenson, felony, transportation for 14 years.

12. John Taylor, felony, transportation for 14 years.

13. George Green, felony, transportation for 14 years.

14. Thomas Heath, felony, transportation for 14 years.

15. John Yardley, felony, transportation for 14 years.

16. William Hague, felony, transportation for 14 years.

17. John Mander, felony, transportation for 14 years.

18. John Littlewood, felony, transportation for 7 years.

19. William Carvell, felony, transportation for 7 years.

20. John Taft, felony, transportation for 7 years.

21. Thomas Baseley, misdemeanour, transportation for 7 years.

22. Luke Bryen, misdemeanour, imprisonment with hard labour in the house of correction for 2 years.

23. James Sears, felony, imprisonment with hard labour in the house of correction for 12 calendar months.

24. Matthew Neal, felony, imprisonment with hard labour in the house of correction for 12 calendar months.

25. Thomas Pittam, misdemeanour, imprisonment with hard labour in the gaol for 8 calendar months.

26. William Abbott, felony, imprisonment with hard labour in the house of correction for 6 calendar months.

27. George Munns, felony, imprisonment with hard labour in the house of correction for 6 calendar months.

28. Charles Phillips, felony, imprisonment with hard labour in the house of correction for 6 calendar months.

29. Thomas Driver, felony, imprisonment with hard labour in the house of correction for 6 calendar months.

30. Clement Clarke, misdemeanour, imprisonment in the gaol for 6 calendar months.

31. William Jones, felony, imprisonment with hard labour in the house of correction for 3 months.

32. Michael Thompson, felony, imprisonment with hard labour in the house of correction for 2 months.

33. Thomas Paine, felony, felony, imprisonment with hard labour in the house of correction for 2 months.

Not Guilty delivered

34. John Potts

35. James Howford

36. Ralph Potts

37. Benjamin Cockerill

38. Thomas Stevens

39. William Brown

40. Joseph Lavesley

41. William Green

42. William Sharman

43. Joseph Mallard

Delivered by Proclamation

44. Charles Stanley

45. William Pass

46. Charles Middleton

47. George Earlum

48. John Cameron

49. Edmund Morris

50. Joseph Andrews

51. John Blyth

52. Joseph Chadwick

53. James Wright

Folios 109 –118.