Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we’re still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

Item

Report of Henry Gould on 1 individual petition (prisoner) and 1 collective petition...

Catalogue reference: HO 47/8/22

What’s it about?

This record is about the Report of Henry Gould on 1 individual petition (prisoner) and 1 collective petition... dating from 1789 May 2 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

Access information is unavailable

Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.

Full description and record details

Reference
HO 47/8/22
Date
1789 May 2
Description

Report of Henry Gould on 1 individual petition (prisoner) and 1 collective petition (8 people, including the minister and churchwardens of St. Mary's Whitechapel in Middlesex) on behalf of Catherine Wilmot, convicted at the Essex Lent Assizes at Chelmsford in 1787, for stealing a cloth great coat, value 12/-, and another coat, value 16/-, property of Joseph Special, of Bishops Stortford, market trader, on 28 November 1786[?] at Harlow Fair. Evidences supplied by Joseph Special, George Littlefield, Rachael Sapsworth, servant to Special; Walter Green, livery stable keeper in Whitechapel; Thomas Grill, victualler and the prisoner. Grounds for clemency: prisoner has 4 children who are destitute and her husband is with the fleet at sea. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: no mercy.

Related material

Folios 87-89.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8999740/

Series information

HO 47

Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals

See the series level description for more information about this record.

View series description

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

1,720,251 records

Within the department: HO

Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related...

3,664 records

Within the series: HO 47

Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals

131 records

Within the piece: HO 47/8

Reports on criminals: correspondence. (Described at item level).

You are currently looking at the item: HO 47/8/22

Report of Henry Gould on 1 individual petition (prisoner) and 1 collective petition...

Related records

Records that share similar topics with this record.