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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board the...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/15/62
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- HO 17/15/62
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1823 Dec 31
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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board the York convict hulk at Portsmouth.
Names and details of prisoners:
George Dodd aged 23 convicted at Newgate on 17 February 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
John Heath aged 18 convicted at Newgate on 17 February 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
Henry Rice aged 29 convicted at Bury St Edmunds [Suffolk] on 26 March 1819 of grand larceny. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
Job Ands aged 25 convicted at Taunton [Somerset] on 27 March 1819 of grand larceny. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
Joseph Handole aged 31 convicted at Wells [Somerset] on 19 April 1819 of grand larceny. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
Thomas Brown aged 37 convicted at Bury St Edmunds [Suffolk] on 1 July 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
John Findland aged 35 convicted at Lancaster [Lancashire] on 19 July 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
John Lockett aged 22 convicted at Lancaster on 19 July 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
William Bedemore aged 32 convicted at Exeter [Devon] on 2 August 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
John Pearse aged 20 convicted at Lewes [Sussex] on 7 August 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
Michael McEvoy aged 46 convicted at Shrewsbury [Shropshire] on 12 July 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
John Pears aged 22 convicted at Warwick [Warwickshire] on 7 August 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
Jacob Cuff aged 29 convicted at Newgate on 15 September 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
William Douglass aged 17 convicted at Newgate on 17 May 1820 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years transportation.
Gaoler's name: John Henry Capper, Superintendent.
Grounds for clemency (Recommendation Details): Served more than half their sentence with good conduct.
Annotated (Recommendation Details): Pardon prepared 26 January 1824.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Bk 12
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16238043/
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board the...