Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board/in:...

Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board/in: The General Penitentiary.

Names and details of prisoners:

Nathaniel Burrows: aged 21 convicted at Derby on 2 February 1822. Initial sentence seven years transportation.

Abraham Arlett: aged 32 convicted at Reading on 3 March 1822; initial sentence seven years transportation.

Owen Powers: aged 25 convicted at Old Bailey on 24 October 1821. Initial sentence seven years transportation. [Entry crossed through].

John Gibbons: aged 27 convicted at Old Bailey on 24 October 1821. Initial sentence seven years transportation.

Thomas Taylor: aged 21 convicted at Westminster on 18 October 1821. Initial sentence seven years transportation; [entry crossed through].

John Williams: aged 24 convicted at Liverpool on 7 May 1821. Initial sentence seven years transportation.

Thomas Dixon: aged 22 convicted at Old Bailey on 24 May 1821. Initial sentence seven years transportation.

Richard Tripp: aged 23 convicted at Reading on 9 March 1822. Initial sentence seven years transportation.

John Atkinson: aged 26 convicted at Newcastle upon Tyne on 2 March 1822. Initial sentence seven years transportation.

Edward Harrison: aged 32 convicted at Isle of Ely on 25 February 1822. Initial sentence seven years transportation.

John Evans: aged 23 convicted at Old Bailey on 20 Old Bailey 1822. Initial sentence seven years transportation.

Thomas Mills: aged 18 convicted at Oakham on 8 March 1822. Initial sentence seven years transportation.

William Coates: aged 28 convicted at Old Bailey on 26 October 1821. Initial sentence seven years transportation.

Gaoler's name: John Capper, Superintendent.

Grounds for clemency (Recommendation Details): Sentence expires March 1826.

Annotated (Recommendation Details): Free pardons prepared September 1825.

Other papers: A letter dated 2 August 1825 from Mr Boston Clerk of the Peace of Bury asking for remission of the sentences of the prisoners.

A letters and Mr Peel's reply concerning John Chasteney, William Cooper, William Smith and Thomas Cooper convicted of taking a truss of hay from their master and applying it to their own use and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, John Chasteney sentenced to 18 months for receiving the same, at the Epiphany Quarter Sessions of the Peace held on 12 January 1825 by adjournment at Woodbridge Suffolk. Remission prepared September 1825.

Illegible and unsigned note. [R Peel].