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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board the...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/2/15
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1821 June 30
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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board the hulk Ganymede.
Prisoner details: William Wheeler, aged 32, convicted at Newgate [London] on 2 July 1817of felony.
Prisoner details: Thomas Davis, aged 28, convicted at Newgate [London] on 2 July 1817 of felony.
Prisoner details: Samuel Costings, aged 24, convicted at Chester [Cheshire] on 27 August 1817 of larceny.
Prisoner details: George Payne, aged 32, convicted at Newgate [London] on 29 October 1817 of felony.
Prisoner details: James Smith, aged 27, convicted at Liverpool [Lancashire] Quarter Sessions on 20 October 1817 of felony.
All sentenced to seven years [transportation].
Gaoler's name: George Lloyd, Captain, the Reverend R W Whitehead, Chaplain.
Grounds for clemency: Two out of every hundred who have served more than half their sentence; quiet orderly and uniform good conduct.
Annotated: To be pardoned 10 July 1821.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Ah 15
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- English
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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