Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name(s): Charles Edwards. Court and date of trial: Bedford Summer Assizes...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/30/39
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- HO 17/30/39
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1821
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name(s): Charles Edwards.
Court and date of trial: Bedford Summer Assizes held on 3 August 1821.
Crime: Uttering forged banknotes.
Initial sentence: 14 years transportation.
Annotated (Outcome): No orders; considered at the Meeting of Lords Justices 11 October 1821; nil.
Petitioner(s): Prisoner and Samuel Berners and Richard Bass, prosecutors.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Convict was inadvertently drawn into this transaction; he was an honest, sober and industrious young man; he repents of his 'commission' and promises to behave in future honestly and uprightly; he has a young wife and child; previous good character; his aged father (age 50) supports the petition.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Dh 39
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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