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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/in:...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/102/51
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1825
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Recommendation for the mitigation of sentence for selected prisoners on board/in: Stafford Gaol.
Names and details of prisoners:
William Caulkin: aged 44, convicted at [Lancashire] Summer Assizes in 1822 of manslaughter. Initial sentence 3 years imprisonment.
Thomas Simpson: aged 44, convicted at [Lancashire] Adjourned Sessions in 1824 of receiving two wrappers knowing them to be stolen. Initial sentence 2 years imprisonment.
Margaret Green: aged 60, convicted at [Lancashire] Michaelmas Sessions in 1821 of stealing sheets, blankets and etc. Initial sentence 7 years transportation.
Gaoler's name: Thomas Brutton, Governor, and John Langley, Chaplain.
Grounds for clemency (Recommendation Details): William Caulkin - Exemplary conduct; Thomas Simpson - illegible; Margaret Green - Advanced age, and having suffered in health from long confinement.
Annotated (Recommendation Details): Granted as to William Caulkin, refused as to the other two. Caulkin pardoned February 1825.
Other papers: Recommendation of Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, and the Visiting magistrates of the Gaol at Stafford.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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