Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Mark Oliver Peeling. Prisoner age: 18. Court and date of trial: Essex...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/54/126
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1831 Dec 19
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Prisoner name: Mark Oliver Peeling.
Prisoner age: 18.
Court and date of trial: Essex Winter Assizes, Chelmsford, 30 November 1831.
Crime: Housebreaking; entering the house of Robert Harvey, of Little Clacton, Essex, and stealing a loaf of bread and some cheese.
Initial sentence: Death recorded and commuted to transportation for life.
Annotated: Nil.
Petitioner(s): John Peeling, the prisoner's father, of Little Clacton, Essex, labourer, undersigned by John Lawrence Kirby, Vicar of Little Clacton, Essex; William Dewey of the Essex Independent Office.
Grounds for clemency: He is of weak intellect; confessed to the crime; his youth; first offence; his father was prevented from testifying to his son's weak intellect by extreme poverty and the necessity of daily labour to provide for his wife and seven children.
Additional Information: Held in Springfield gaol, Essex. Recently rejected for enlistment in the 95th [Regiment of Foot].
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- IQ 13
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- English
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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