Item
Item (folio 144) extracted from HO 47/14/23
Catalogue reference: HO 47/14/23/1
Date: 1792
Item (folio 144) extracted from HO 47/14/23
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Report of Richard Perrryn on 3 individual petitions (prisoner, Mary Essex, prosecutrix...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/8/9
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This record is about the Report of Richard Perrryn on 3 individual petitions (prisoner, Mary Essex, prosecutrix... dating from 1789 Apr 8 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1789 Apr 8
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Description (What the record is about)
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Report of Richard Perrryn on 3 individual petitions (prisoner, Mary Essex, prosecutrix and William C. Davis, Lieutenant of the 74th Regiment) on behalf of Richard Arding/Harding, ex-soldier of the 29th Foot Regiment, convicted at the Worcestershire Assizes on 2 April 1789, for burglary and stealing handkerchiefs, seals, buckles and buttons, property from the shop/dwelling house of Mary Essex. Also a covering letter from Earl of Harrington. Grounds for clemency: previous good character, convicted on circumstantial evidence, prosecutrix initially prosecuted with one eye on a reward but had changed her stance, the prisoner saved the life of a gaoler. Initial sentence: death. Recommendation: speaks in favour of mercy.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Folios 31-37.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals
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