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Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
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Prisoner name: Henry Cole. Prisoner age: 16. Prisoner occupation: Drover. Court and...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/99/153
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This record is about the Prisoner name: Henry Cole. Prisoner age: 16. Prisoner occupation: Drover. Court and... dating from 1834 Jan-1838 July in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1834 Jan-1838 July
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Prisoner name: Henry Cole.
Prisoner age: 16.
Prisoner occupation: Drover.
Court and date of trial: Sussex Quarter Sessions, Lewes, January 1834.
Crime: Stealing a silver watch and three silver shillings from the person of Richard Back, together with James Atterall (or James Attreal), John Hawke, Henry Gander and John James.
Initial sentence: Transportation for life.
Gaoler's report: Character very bad.
Annotated (Outcome): Reduced to seven years transportation and to be sent to the Penitentiary. Amended to 'if he is sent abroad he had better be sent for life'.
Petitioner(s): The prisoner, undersigned by 80 inhabitants of Lewes.
77 inhabitants of Lewes.
Grounds for clemency (Petition Details): Good character; led astray by others; prosecutor recommends mercy; youth.
Other papers: Two certificates of William Beaty of Lewes, corn dealer, the prisoner's step father, and Henry Uridge of Chittington, Sussex, farmer, and George Drowley of Lewes, horse dealer, the prisoner's former employers, testifying to his honesty.
Certificate of Richard Black of Rodmell near Lewes, labourer, prosecutor, recommending mercy.
Letter from William Beaty forwarding petition.
Letter from R Gear of Lewes, committing magistrate, recommending mitigation of sentence but requesting that he be sent abroad to remove him from the 'many bad characters remaining in this Town'.
Letter from Thomas D'Oyly, trial judge, agreeing with opinions expressed by R Gear.
Additional Information: Prisoner held in Horsham gaol. Ordered to Leviathan hulk. Transported to Van Diemen's Land.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Ss 34
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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