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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Amos Pettit. Court and date of trial: Clerkenwell, 19 September 1831....
Catalogue reference: HO 17/54/127
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Amos Pettit. Court and date of trial: Clerkenwell, 19 September 1831.... dating from 1831 Sept - 1831 Dec in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/54/127
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1831 Sept - 1831 Dec
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Prisoner name: Amos Pettit.
Court and date of trial: Clerkenwell, 19 September 1831.
Crime: Threatening Martha Bacon at Cambridge Heath, London such that she apprehends she is in danger of her life.
Initial sentence: To provide two sureties of £40 each that he keeps the peace for three months or that in default thereof he is imprisoned for three months. Committed to prison 26 September 1831 for want of sureties.
Annotated: Warrant prepared for removal to Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum 2 December 1831.
Papers: Thomas Stirling, Clerk to the Visiting Magistrates for New Prison, Clerkenwell, London forwarding two certificates of insanity and requesting that the convict be removed to an asylum. Certificate of insanity by Henry Wakefield, Surgeon to the prison. Certificate of insanity by Richard Roscoe, MD. Letter from T W Kilsby transmitting the warrant for committal to prison. Warrant for committal to prison.
Additional Information: Held in New Prison, Clerkenwell, London.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- IQ 14
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- Public Record(s)
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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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