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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
1 individual petition (prisoner) and 2 collective petitions (101 and 79 inhabitants...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/4/78
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This record is about the 1 individual petition (prisoner) and 2 collective petitions (101 and 79 inhabitants... dating from 1834 Apr 5 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/4/78
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1834 Apr 5
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 individual petition (prisoner) and 2 collective petitions (101 and 79 inhabitants of Witney [Oxfordshire]) and 1 accompanying letter on behalf of William Harman convicted at the Oxford Lent Assizes in March 1834 for receiving stolen cart rope and pack sheets. Grounds for clemency: first offence, previous honest character, offence committed through ignorance, wife, 6 children and aged mother to support, later wife deserts children to be looked after by grandmother. Initial sentence: 14 years transportation. Gaoler's report: character good, respectable connections, married 6 children. Annotated: sentence commuted to 7 years transportation, ordered to Penitentiary for 7 years. AT 26
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10537888/
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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