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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board/in:...

Catalogue reference: HO 17/112/198

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HO 17/112/198
Date
1828
Description

Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board/in: Penitentiary.

Names and details of prisoners:

George Brown, convicted at Norwich [Norfolk] on 14 July 1824.

Dennis McCarthy, convicted at Old Bailey on 13 September 1824.

Thomas Coumbe, convicted at Bodmin [Cornwall] on 19 October 1824.

Richard Cook, convicted at Old Bailey on 28 October 1824.

Caroline Mason, convicted at Liverpool on 25 October 1824.

Elizabeth Frennery, convicted at Bodmin [Cornwall] on 19 October 1824.

William Newberry, convicted at Abingdon [Oxfordshire] on 11 July 1825.

Benjamin Stokes, convicted at Buckingham [Buckinghamshire] on 16 July 1825.

Ann Roach, convicted at Old Bailey on 28 October 1824.

Mary Edwards, convicted at Old Bailey 7 April 1825.

Gaoler's name: J E Dowdeswell.

Grounds for clemency (Recommendation Details): Good behaviour and friends to receive them apart from McCarthy and Coumbe who are still recommended. Newberry, Stokes Roach and Edwards on medical grounds.

Annotated (Recommendation Details): Free pardon prepared 23 January 1828.

Other papers: Medical report by Anthony White surgeon.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Wm 48
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16529118/

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