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Papers HO 18/225/24.
Catalogue reference: HO 18/236/45
Date: [1848-1849]
Papers HO 18/225/24.
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Prisoner name: William Spriggs, aged 21 years. Court and Date of Trial: [Market...
Catalogue reference: HO 18/251/20
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1848
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Prisoner name: William Spriggs, aged 21 years.
Court and Date of Trial: [Market Harborough or Little Bowden Petty Sessions, Leicestershire], August 1848.
Crime: Offence against the Game Laws and assault.
Initial sentence: Two months imprisonment (plus one month's imprisonment for the assault). Held in Northampton House of Correction (Northamptonshire).
Outcome: 'Nil'.
Petitions and letters: Petition from 20 inhabitants of Little Bowden or Market Harborough (known to the prisoner), undersigned by the three convicting magistrates; petitional letter from J Hinman pursuing a response from the Home Office; grounds for clemency cited as that he has planned to emigrate with his family to Port Adelaide, Australia; the convicting magistrates do not object to his release for this purpose.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- 251/20
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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II
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