Item
[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
Item
Prisoner name: John Webb. Prisoner age: 40 in 1809. Court and date of trial: Wiltshire...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/99/38
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This record is about the Prisoner name: John Webb. Prisoner age: 40 in 1809. Court and date of trial: Wiltshire... dating from 1831 Apr in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1831 Apr
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Prisoner name: John Webb.
Prisoner age: 40 in 1809.
Court and date of trial: Wiltshire Quarter Sessions, April 1809.
Crime: Burglary in workshops of Joseph Phelps and Abraham Lloyd Edridge, clothiers, Chippenham, and stealing one superfine woollen cloth, value £40, and its woollen wrapper.
Initial sentence: Unable to plead by cause of insanity.
Annotated (Outcome): Warrant of discharge prepared 29 April 1831.
Other papers: Recommendation of Wiltshire Quarter Sessions, New Sarum, for discharge of prisoner, with copy report of case and surgeon's certificate from William Andrews, surgeon to Fisherton gaol, testifying to the prisoner's sanity.
Additional Information: Prisoner discharged from prosecution in 1818 but remained in custody as insane.
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- Sp 38
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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