Prisoner name: Edward Hayward, aged 40, clock maker, a native of St Helena. Court...

Prisoner name: Edward Hayward, aged 40, clock maker, a native of St Helena.

Court and Date of Trial: Middlesex magistrates court, Bow Street, August 1839.

Crime: Breach of the peace by approaching the queen with a letter in Hyde Park on 16 August 1839.

Initial sentence: Insane.

Outcome: Discharge in a month, August 1859.

Petitions and letters: Four petitions from the prisoner the first two requesting he be returned to St Helena, the second two, twenty years later, requesting he remain in this country.

Police report on case.

Four letters and one statement from the prisoner, with covering letters from Bethlem Hospital.

Letter from James Clitherow of Boston House, Ealing, confirming the prisoner's previous confinements in Hanwell Lunatic Asylum and forwarding copy of entry from discharge book.

Three medical certificates, two confirming the prisoner's insanity, the third, twenty years later from Bethlem Hospital stating that he is sane.