Prisoner name(s): Eleanor Sinclair. Prisoner age: 40. Court and date of trial: Clerkenwell...

Prisoner name(s): Eleanor Sinclair.

Prisoner age: 40.

Court and date of trial: Clerkenwell Sessions in February 1828.

Crime: Fraud involving letters from a relative and the Court of Chancery amounting to £30.

Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.

Gaoler's report: 'Conduct orderly.'

Annotated (Outcome): Nil.

Petitioner(s): 5 petitions from Eleanor Sinclair(prisoner) of Clarendon Place, Edgware Road, London.

Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner is the sole protector of her dead sister's six children, her own children and her afflicted 80 year old mother; the prisoner would the true culprit of the crime is a family friend of 25 years' standing, named Mr Bell; she wishes to be placed in the penitentiary; the prisoner was unable to employ counsel at her trial because she has lost all her property, money and friends.

Other papers: Lord Lyndhurst the Lord High Chancellor of England of George Street, Hanover Square, [London] a trial witness confirming that his presence at the trial might have led to the prisoner receiving a harsher sentence.

Two letters from Charles Sinclair (prisoner's husband) in Ostend, Belgium reporting on his struggles to make money and promising to send the prisoner money. The letters were sent through Mr Hutchinson and Major Brice.

A letter from the prisoner requesting a few pounds in order for the ship's doctor to find her a suitable position which will be the means of saving her life in New South Wales.

Additional Information: The prisoner's brothers died at sea and her sister died at Bath.

In Newgate Gaol.