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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
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Prisoner name(s): Samuel Hughes. Prisoner occupation: Captain of a canal boat. Court...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/30/175
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This record is about the Prisoner name(s): Samuel Hughes. Prisoner occupation: Captain of a canal boat. Court... dating from 1826 - 1830 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 17/30/175
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1826 - 1830
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name(s): Samuel Hughes.
Prisoner occupation: Captain of a canal boat.
Court and date of trial: Northampton Lent Assizes 1827.
Crime: Stealing wine - two quantities of sherry wines, value £4 on the Alice canal boat property of Messrs Pickford and Messrs Bass and Company, Braunston wharf, Northamptonshire 6 August 1826.
Initial sentence: Transportation seven years.
Gaoler's report: 'Behaviour on board Leviathan very good.'
Annotated (Outcome): Refused.
Petitioner(s): Prisoner and 25 people and 84 people of Coventry.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Has been imprisoned seven months; accomplices' sentences were much shorter; upright and honest character up to this time; he will behave in future if sentence mitigated.
Other papers: Letter from Messrs Pickford stating they would reemploy him.
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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)
- Dm 42
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14463112/
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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