Prisoner name(s): Hambry Price and Mary Price. Prisoner occupation: Maker, designer...

Prisoner name(s): Hambry Price and Mary Price.

Prisoner occupation: Maker, designer and colourer of French Cards. Previously, Hambry Price owned a greengrocer's shop and sold oysters.

Court and date of trial: Old Bailey June Sessions 1828.

Crime: Colouring counterfeit coin.

Initial sentence: Death sentence (Hambry Price). Transportation for life (Mary Price).

Annotated (Outcome): Considered at Report in Council 7 May 1828. Nil.

Petitioner(s): Hambry Price (prisoner) and his wife Mary Price (prisoner) of London undersigned by eight people.

Two petitions from Hambry Price (prisoner).

Mary Price (prisoner).

Andrew Spottiswoode enclosing a petition from Hambry Price (prisoner).

Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoners are respectable, sober and industrious; the culprit is a criminal named Edward Harvey; Hambry Price has only been tried for a libel in favour of Queen Catherine; Edward Harvey inveigled Warner to inform against the prisoners and shared the blood money from the prisoner's convictions with their arresting police officers named Limerick, Lee and Edwards; Officer Lee knew that Hambry Price had no need to commit this crime because he earned £2 a week from his trade; the majority of coiners keep their homes a secret; Hambry price has only recently stated his address before a magistrate; the prisoners were unable to obtain legal assistance or witnesses because their money had been used to obtain sustenance and then taken in lieu of rent; Hambry Price sacrificed opportunities to establish his own innocence in attempts to save his wife; Hambry Price is dying; his wife and mother are heartbroken.

Other papers: Andrew Spottiswoode enclosing a petition from Hambry Price (prisoner).

Additional Information: The prisoners' had only been married a few months before their arrests and lived at the Waterhouse, [London].

The prisoners were incarcerated in Newgate Gaol. Hambry Price had been executed by 31 May 1828.