Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name(s): William Coombs. Prisoner occupation: Cook's servant. Court and...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/30/102
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- HO 17/30/102
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1825
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Prisoner name(s): William Coombs.
Prisoner occupation: Cook's servant.
Court and date of trial: Oxford Lent Assizes 1825.
Crime: Stealing in a dwelling house a Bank Post Bill of £10 from Henry Somers Cocks of Christ Church College, Oxford.
Initial sentence: Death commuted to transportation for life.
Annotated (Outcome): Nil.
Petitioner(s): Joseph and Elizabeth Coombs , of Oxford, parents and 11 people of the College and Oxford.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Prisoner is a young man, the only support to his distressed parents and known to many of the petitioners for many years as of unimpeachable character; his life is despaired of on the hulks.
Additional Information: Now on the hulks at Portsmouth.
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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)
- Dl 19
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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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