Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Elizabeth Roberts. Court and date of trial: Durham Quarter Sessions...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/2/161
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Elizabeth Roberts. Court and date of trial: Durham Quarter Sessions... dating from 1829 Apr in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1829 Apr
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Prisoner name: Elizabeth Roberts.
Court and date of trial: Durham Quarter Sessions January 1829.
Crime: Uttering base coin - a half crown (2s 6d).
Initial sentence: Six months imprisonment.
Annotated: Remission prepared 11 May 1829.
Grounds for clemency: Convict has conducted herself 'in an industrious and exemplary manner before and after the trial'; she has served eight months.
Correspondence: Letter from William Miller and George Fox, Visiting Magistrates for Durham. Recommendation letter from General Arthur Aylmer, Chairman of the Durham Sessions, stating that Elizabeth Roberts is 'an object deserving of the royal Clemency' and enclosing the above.
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- Ao 11
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- English
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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