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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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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board the...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/15/63
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- HO 17/15/63
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1823 Dec 31
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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 the Retribution convict hulk.
Names and details of prisoners:
Thomas Williams (or John Williams) aged 30 convicted at Middlesex on 28 October 1818 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
James Roscoe aged 28 convicted at Preston [Lancashire] on 14 January 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
William Houghton aged 29 convicted at Lincoln [Lincolnshire] on 6 March 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
John Lee aged 24 convicted at Shrewsbury [Shropshire] on 18 October 1819 of stealing in a dwelling house. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
Thomas Banks aged 50 convicted at Middlesex on 27 October 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
John Scott aged 59 convicted at London on 27 October 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
[Joseph Knox] aged 25 convicted at Middlesex on 6 December 1819 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
George Phillips aged 19 convicted of felony at Middlesex on 18 February 1820 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
Frederick Pitt aged 25 convicted at Middlesex on 12 April 1820 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
James Coyle aged 35 convicted at Glasgow on 2 May 1820 of theft. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board the Bellerophon convict hulk.
Names and details of prisoners:
John Belsey aged 52 convicted at Canterbury [Kent] on 14 July 1818 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
[Joseph Purvis] aged 51 convicted at Middlesex on 6 May 1818 of stealing a chariot. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
[Joseph Hopping] aged 32 convicted at Salford [Lancashire] on 21 July 1818 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
George Duncroft aged 28 convicted at Salford on 17 January 1820 of felony. Initial sentence: seven years' transportation.
Gaoler's name: John Capper, Superintendent.
Grounds for clemency (Recommendation Details): Served half their sentence and well behaved.
Annotated (Recommendation Details): Pardon prepared 26 January 1824.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Bk 13
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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