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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name(s): John Prior. Prisoner occupation: Employed by Thomas Dering a...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/8
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- HO 17/26/8
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1832 Apr 17
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Prisoner name(s): John Prior.
Prisoner occupation: Employed by Thomas Dering a corn dealer of Lower Marsh, Lambeth, [London].
Court and date of trial: Surrey Lent Assizes held at Kingston in 1828.
Crime: Housebreaking.
Initial sentence: [Death] commuted to transportation for life.
Annotated (Outcome): On board the Weymouth in Bermuda. Nil.
Petitioner(s): Elizabeth Prior (prisoner's wife) undersigned by 26 inhabitants of London.
23 inhabitants of Saint Mary Parish in Maldon, Essex.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner fell into bad company; two men, who have escaped, encouraged the prisoner to commit the crime when he was drunk; the prisoner has always borne a good character and expresses great contrition over his offence; the prisoner is unknown to the police because this crime is his first offence; in the event of mercy, the prisoner's former employer has agreed to employ the prisoner; the prisoner wishes to return to the Saint Mary Parish in order to be reunited with his wife and infant family; the prisoner's wife is utterly destitute of support and has a numerous family.
Other papers: Thomas Barrett Lennard of 30 Upper Brook Street, [London] enclosing the petition from Saint Mary Parish.
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- Cn 8
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- English
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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