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Folios 75-76. A certificate recommending mercy for several prisons convicted in the...

Catalogue reference: SP 37/15/40

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This record is about the Folios 75-76. A certificate recommending mercy for several prisons convicted in the... dating from 1781 Apr 4 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George III. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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1781 Apr 4
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Folios 75-76. A certificate recommending mercy for several prisons convicted in the Norfolk Circuit. At Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: John Jones, for robbery, sentence to three years dredging the River Thames, work aimed at improving navigation; John Turner and Lewis Slaughter, on condition of continuing in enlistment. At Bedford, Bedfordshire, for highway robbery: Thomas Southam and William Bosworth, on condition of river work. At Thetford, Norfolk, Robert Andrews for theft, and Thomas Hudson, for sheep-steeling, on condition of enlistment. Signed by [Baron] Loughborough].

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