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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board the...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/2/16

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HO 17/2/16
Date
1820 June 30
Description

Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board the hulk Retribution.

Prisoner details: James Potter, aged 32, convicted at Maidstone [Kent] on 17 March 1817 of felony.

Prisoner details: Job Lewis, aged 54, convicted at Shrewsbury [Shropshire] on 19 March 1817 of grand larceny.

Prisoner details: James Cule, aged 22, convicted at Stafford [Staffordshire] Quarter Sessions on 16 April 1817 of grand larceny [name crossed out].

Prisoner details: William Roberts, aged 43, convicted at Northampton [Northamptonshire] on 15 July 1817 of stealing a lamb.

Prisoner details: Samuel Fabb, aged 30, convicted at Middlesex on 29 October 1817 of felony.

Prisoner details: James Wilkins, aged 32, convicted at Middlesex on 29 October 1817 of felony.

Prisoner details: William B Orgar, aged 17, convicted at London on 29 October 1817 of felony.

Prisoner details: James Ives, aged 26, convicted oysters at Chelmsford [Essex] on 14 October 1817 of stealing.

Prisoner details: James Brown, aged 29, convicted at Middlesex on 3 December 1817 of felony.

Prisoner details: Antony Liedenburgh, aged 32, convicted at London on 17 September 1817 of felony.

Prisoner details: Edward Lang alias Edward McCulloch alias Edward Runsey, aged 26, convicted at Chatham Barracks [Kent] on 29 December 1817 of desertion .

Prisoner details: William Patterson, aged 21, convicted at Edinburgh on 30 December 1817 of breach of trust.

All sentenced to seven years [transportation].

Gaoler's name: J Mears, Overseer, [D Price], 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.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Ah 16
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13024717/

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