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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): James White. Prisoner age: 24. Court and date of trial: Old...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/71
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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): James White. Prisoner age: 24. Court and date of trial: Old... dating from 1829 June 24 - 1829 July 2 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 June 24 - 1829 July 2
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Prisoner name(s): James White.
Prisoner age: 24.
Court and date of trial: Old Bailey June Sessions 1829.
Crime: Stealing guinea fowls from the farmland of W H Wiggins of Watlington, [Oxfordshire].
Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.
Gaoler's report: 'Not known.'
Petitioner(s): G P Cooke, an attorney of Watlington, [Oxfordshire]; 20 inhabitants of Watlington, [Oxfordshire] including W H Wiggins a farmer (prosecutor).
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): All four petitions are intended to prevent the prisoner receiving clemency; the prisoner is a notorious and abominable character; the prisoner has been confined several times for poaching and assault; the prisoner was committed to Oxford gaol for an assault on the keepers of the Earl of Macclesfield several months before his trial at the Old Bailey; a mitigation of the prisoner's sentence is unjust and will lead to fatal consequences for the inhabitants of Watlington and their property; the prisoner is a bad influence.
Other papers: A letter from John Fane Esquire MP of Wormsley Farm, Wormsley, Stokenchurch, [Buckinghamshire] with further evidence of White's bad character; a letter from John Fane enclosing the second petition.
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- Co 21
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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