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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board the...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/2/13
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- 1821 June 6
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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board the Leviathan hulk at Portsmouth [Hampshire].
Prisoner details: John Smith, age 25, convicted at Norfolk on 16 March 1816 of grand larceny.
Prisoner details: Noah Muffitt, age 26, convicted at Norfolk on 16 March 1816 of sheep stealing.
Prisoner details: Hector Bleekey, age 40, convicted at Warwick on 5 April 1816 of stealing from the person.
Prisoner details: Thomas Banks, age 42, convicted at Bradford [West Riding of Yorkshire] on 18 July 1816 of felony.
Prisoner details: Richard Peacock, age 24, convicted at Hertford [Hertfordshire] on 29 July 1816 of felony.
Prisoner details: James Britton, age 28, convicted at Chelmsford [Essex] on 31 July 1816 of felony.
Prisoner details: Richard Stone, age 29, convicted at Reading [Berkshire] on 3 March 1817 of grand larceny.
Prisoner details: Richard Godfrey, age 29, convicted at Reading [Berkshire] on 3 March 1817 of shooting a deer.
Prisoner details: Samuel Arnold, age 50, convicted at Horsham [Sussex] on 24 March 1817 of felony.
Prisoner details: John Price, age, 29 convicted at Surrey on 27 March 1817 of felony.
Prisoner details: John Floyd, age 49, convicted at Launceston [Cornwall] on 27 March 1817 of felony.
Prisoner details: Benjamin Barrett, age 54, convicted at Exeter [Devon] on 14 April 1817 of grand larceny.
Prisoner details: William Goodman, age 30, convicted at Abingdon [Oxfordshire] on 19 April 1817 of petit larceny.
Prisoner details: David Vernon, age 39, convicted at Salford [Lancashire] on 21 October 1817 of felony.
All sentenced to seven years [transportation].
Gaoler's name: Charles Stedman, Captain; William Tate, Chaplain.
Grounds for clemency: Quiet, uniform and orderly good conduct while on board; have served over half their sentence.
Annotated: 'The above named fourteen convicts to be pardoned'.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Ah 13
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13024714/
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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