Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name(s): John Eyre. Prisoner occupation: Postmaster of Marlborough, [Wiltshire]....
Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/98
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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): John Eyre. Prisoner occupation: Postmaster of Marlborough, [Wiltshire].... dating from 1830 Mar 29 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/26/98
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1830 Mar 29
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Prisoner name(s): John Eyre.
Prisoner occupation: Postmaster of Marlborough, [Wiltshire].
Court and date of trial: Wiltshire Lent Assizes held at New Sarum 7 March 1829.
Crime: Embezzlement. The prisoner defrauded His Majesty's Post Office revenue.
Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.
Petitioner(s): 112 inhabitants of Marlborough, Wiltshire.
79 inhabitants of Swindon, Wiltshire.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner has been an inhabitant of Marlborough since his childhood and has known some of the petitioners for 30 years; the prisoner is a man of invincible integrity and good conduct; the prisoner's charity toward his friends, neighbours and the poor has gained him a large circle of acquaintance; the prisoner's friends provided character testimony at the trial and the jury recommended him for merciful consideration; the prisoner may die if he is forced to endure the journey to His Majesty's foreign plantations and the climate; the prisoner's early habits of life gave rise to a protracted and grievous bodily malady that depleted his strength.
Other papers: Note about location of John Eyre.
Letter from T Keeley from the General Post Office stating the prisoner should not be sent out of the country; he should be made an example of in order to deter others from similar crimes.
Additional Information: On board York hulk; now on Lady Feversham about to sail for N S W.
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- Co 48
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- English
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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