Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: Matthew Marwood. Prisoner occupation: Butcher, previously farmer....
Catalogue reference: HO 17/52/203
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Matthew Marwood. Prisoner occupation: Butcher, previously farmer.... dating from 1838 - 1839 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HO 17/52/203
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Date (When the record was created)
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1838 - 1839
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Description (What the record is about)
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Prisoner name: Matthew Marwood.
Prisoner occupation: Butcher, previously farmer.
Court and date of trial: Liverpool Sessions [Lancashire], 25 October 1838.
Crime: Forging order for payment of money. Prosecutor, Thomas Briscoe.
Initial sentence: Two years imprisonment.
Annotated (Outcome): 'Nil'.
Petitioner(s): The prisoner with others. 11 respectable local inhabitants.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): The prisoner is of good character and was never before suspected of a crime; the prisoner had no intention of defrauding the Prosecutor and attempted to repay money when taken in to custody; the prisoner has already served three months in gaol; the prisoner has a wife and two young children to support.
Other papers: Letter from Francis and Dodge [prisoner's attorneys] forwarding a petition, a recommendation for mercy signed by nine jury members, a copy of the prisoner's bank account and depositions from Thomas Briscoe, James Chalmers and James Lister, and character references for the prisoner from Truefoot Mead, Peter Rowson and John Ready. Letter from J Clarke, Recorder of Lancaster, forwarding his case report. Recommendation letter from Thomas Briscoe. Letter to John Cottingham from Francis and Dodge, Liverpool. Letter from J Clarke forwarding a statement from Thomas Briscoe and letters from R Radcliffe, Town Hall, Liverpool and from Secretary of State to the prisoners' Attorneys [Francis and Dodge]. Letter from [William Wainwright] forwarding letters from [Nicholas Willis] and Henry Cleaver Chapman.
Additional Information: Prisoner was a native of Whitby, Yorkshire, then Liverpool.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
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Hz 41
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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