Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
1 individual petition (Charles Thompson, a magistrate and prisoner's former employer)...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/4/133
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This record is about the 1 individual petition (Charles Thompson, a magistrate and prisoner's former employer)... dating from 1835 Feb 27 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/4/133
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1835 Feb 27
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 individual petition (Charles Thompson, a magistrate and prisoner's former employer) on behalf of John Hodges convicted at the Kent Quarter Sessions at Rochester in January 1831 for embezzlement. Grounds for clemency: excellent character while employed both by Charles Thompson as helper in his brewery and by his late father as groom and coachman, no one at trial to speak for his good character, wife and 2 children to support, petitioner willing to employ prisoner when liberated, already spent 4 years on prison ship awaiting transportation where conduct been good, free pardon requested to restore good name to neighbours. Initial sentence: 7 year's transportation. Gaoler's report: character good, conduct on board Fortitude good. Annotated: free pardon. AV 42
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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