Report of Sir Oswald Mosley, on 2 collective petitions (Sampson Chatterley and Mary...

Report of Sir Oswald Mosley, on 2 collective petitions (Sampson Chatterley and Mary Chatterley parents of prisoner; 29 people including a minister, chapel wardens, a coroner and inhabitants of Hanley and Shelton), on behalf of William Chatterley, aged 17, convicted at the Michaelmas Staffordshire Quarter Sessions in 1826 of receiving stolen copper plates from Messrs John Ridgeway and William Ridgeway. John Jones was charged with stealing the plates and Chatterley was accused along with Josiah Babbington of receiving them. Evidences supplied by Ann Congrieve Brierley; Alice Brierley, mother of Ann Brierley; George Rhodes, constable of Hanley; William Whielden, employee of Messrs Ridgeway; John Bates; Walter Croxden; Thomas Powell; Richard Leek; S Johnson; R Dudley; F Ball; C Brownfield. Jones was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and hard labour and to be whipped twice privately, and Babbington was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and to be whipped once. Also includes Chatterley's statement of confession. Grounds for clemency: Unintentionally and unwillingly an accessory after the theft. Sentence: 3 months imprisonment and to be once whipped. Recommendation: none given. Folios 194-198.