Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Thomas Capstack. Court and date of trial: Lancaster Lent Assizes [Lancashire]...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/2/101
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Thomas Capstack. Court and date of trial: Lancaster Lent Assizes [Lancashire]... dating from 1828 Apr in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/2/101
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1828 Apr
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name: Thomas Capstack.
Court and date of trial: Lancaster Lent Assizes [Lancashire] 1828.
Crime: Stealing in a dwelling house.
Initial sentence: Sentence commuted to one year's imprisonment.
Annotated: Nil.
Petitioner(s): 20 people of Liverpool [Lancashire] including some previous employers.
Grounds for clemency: Good character up until the crime; has a wife, aged widowed mother and family to support; prisoner is reformed and contrite.
Other papers: A letter from Henry Wilson of Liverpool forwarding the petition. Note from William Wainwright asking for petition to be brought to Mr Peel's attention.
Additional Information: In Lancaster Castle. Since the convict's imprisonment, his father, a cabinet maker from Preston [Lancashire] has died. The convict has a brother in lunatic asylum.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- An 1
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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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