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Prisoner name: James Marshall. Court and Date of Trial: Committed to Spilsby [Lincolnshire]...

Catalogue reference: HO 18/277/42

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This record is about the Prisoner name: James Marshall. Court and Date of Trial: Committed to Spilsby [Lincolnshire]... dating from 1850 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 18/277/42

Date

1850

Description

Prisoner name: James Marshall.

Court and Date of Trial: Committed to Spilsby [Lincolnshire] House of Correction 26 December 1849.

Crime: Night poaching.

Initial sentence: Three months' imprisonment and sureties. A further six months' imprisonment for want of sureties.

Outcome: Free pardon 16 May 1850.

Petitions and letters: Letter from Richard Clitherow, clerk, on behalf of the visiting justices requesting the release of the prisoner on the grounds of his good conduct in gaol and his inability to find the sureties.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

277/42

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Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series II

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