Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name(s): Esau Cooper. Court and date of trial: Newbury Borough Sessions...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/30/103
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- HO 17/30/103
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1825 Sept
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name(s): Esau Cooper.
Court and date of trial: Newbury Borough Sessions July 1825.
Crime: Assault on a Constable.
Initial sentence: Imprisonment three months.
Annotated (Outcome): 'I cannot interfere in his favour.'
Petitioner(s): William Mills, Mayor of Newbury.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): He has served seven weeks of his sentence; he has behaved well in the County Gaol at Reading; he was drunk when he committed the crime; prosecutor has asked for mitigation; he has a wife and four children.
Other papers: An apology from the prisoner.
A note from George Ernest Eaststaff, Keeper of the County Gaol Reading to Mr Green, hatmaker of Newbury supporting Cooper's case.
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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 20
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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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