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Prisoner name: Layzar Leehemengh, aged 12 or 14. Court and Date of Trial: Bolton...

Catalogue reference: HO 18/235/16

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This record is about the Prisoner name: Layzar Leehemengh, aged 12 or 14. Court and Date of Trial: Bolton... dating from 1848 Jan-1848 Feb in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 18/235/16
Date
1848 Jan-1848 Feb
Description

Prisoner name: Layzar Leehemengh, aged 12 or 14.

Court and Date of Trial: Bolton Petty Sessions, Lancashire, January 1848.

Crime: Hawking without a licence in Bolton.

Initial sentence: £10 fine or three months imprisonment.

Outcome: Free pardon, 19 February 1848.

Petitions and letters: Petition from Raphael Leehemengh of 66 Long Millgate, Manchester, licensed hawker, the prisoner's father, pleading the prisoner merely accompanies him, being almost blind, undersigned by three inhabitants of Manchester.

Copy notes of evidence, with letter from clerk to committing magistrates recommending pardon.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
235/16
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18565196/

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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II

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