Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
2 collective petitions (James Fowler and Sarah Fowler, parents, and 88 inhabitants...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/4/71
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This record is about the 2 collective petitions (James Fowler and Sarah Fowler, parents, and 88 inhabitants... dating from 1834 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/4/71
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1834
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 collective petitions (James Fowler and Sarah Fowler, parents, and 88 inhabitants of Witney, Oxfordshire, including prosecutor) on behalf of Michael Fowler convicted at the Oxford Lent Assizes in March 1834 for stealing plate, property of William Marriott, blanket maker of Witney. Gaoler's report: character not known. Grounds for clemency: prisoner's youth, first offence, previously industrious, married against parents' wishes and fell into bad company, driven to crime because of hardship, unemployed, no mitigating circumstances heard at trial. Initial sentence: death commuted to life transportation. Annotated: nil. AT 19
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- English
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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