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Prisoner name(s): Charles Bigg. Court and date of trial: Middlesex Sessions held...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/26/133

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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): Charles Bigg. Court and date of trial: Middlesex Sessions held... dating from 1830 Oct 7 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 17/26/133
Date
1830 Oct 7
Description

Prisoner name(s): Charles Bigg.

Court and date of trial: Middlesex Sessions held at Clerkenwell 12 July 1830.

Crime: Fraud. The prisoner obtained £2 from William Mattison on the 11 June 1830, £4 from Thomas Harding on the 28 May 1830 and £6 from Ann Harding of the monies of Thomas Harding.

Initial sentence: 14 years transportation (two sentences of seven years).

Annotated (Outcome): Free pardon prepared on the 2nd indictment 3 November 1830.

Other papers: A letter from G M Marriott (prisoner's trial judge) asking for Biggs to be pardoned on the second indictment.

Letter from Charles Allen Deputy Clerk of the Peace about the indictments.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Cp 33
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14456192/

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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I

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