Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board/in:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/30/104
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1825 Sept 11
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Description (What the record is about)
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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board/in: Hardy hulk at Tipner.
Names and details of prisoners:
Eli Cousins aged 40 convicted at Lewes on 7 August 1819 of felony. Initial sentence 14 years transportation ; Jonathan Rivett (Rivetts) aged 22 convicted at Chelmsford on 15 June 1822 of grand larceny. Initial sentence seven years transportation.
Gaoler's name: Robert Kellock, Overseer.
Grounds for clemency (Recommendation Details): Rivett: he has behaved well during the whole of his confinement.
Annotated (Recommendation Details): Free pardon September 1825.
Other papers: Letter from Robert Kellock recommending John Rivett be transferred to serve on the Pyramus frigate (annotated 'let him go').
A note from the Commanding Officer of the Pyramus stating that he is willing to receive John Rivetts.
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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 21
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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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