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Prisoner name: Thomas Standley. Court and date of trial: Warwick Lent Assizes [Warwickshire]...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/2/174

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This record is about the Prisoner name: Thomas Standley. Court and date of trial: Warwick Lent Assizes [Warwickshire]... 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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Reference
HO 17/2/174
Date
1829 Apr
Description

Prisoner name: Thomas Standley.

Court and date of trial: Warwick Lent Assizes [Warwickshire] 1829.

Crime: Horse stealing.

Initial sentence: [Death] commuted to six months imprisonment.

Annotated: Nil.

Petitioner(s): Thomas Standley of Spernall, Warwickshire, the convict and 13 farmers. Mary Standley, the convict's wife of Redditch [Worcestershire]. Seven inhabitants of Spernall [Warwickshire].

Grounds for clemency: Convict was in debt; has a pregnant wife and four children; took a horse from the bailiffs to get a living; was ignorant of the law.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Ao 24
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13024875/

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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I

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