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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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Letter from Mr M Ley, Town Clerk of Exeter, enclosing a certificate of recommendation...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/3/60
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- HO 47/3/60
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1784 May 29
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Letter from Mr M Ley, Town Clerk of Exeter, enclosing a certificate of recommendation by the deputy mayor, recorder and others, on behalf of John Cartey and Joseph Hall, convicted, at the last Exeter Assizes, Devon, on 24 May 1784, for being at large before their sentence of transportation had expired (they had escaped from the transport ship Mercury after receiving sentence. Ley also asks for an opinion on two other convicts, Thomas Brown and John Jones, due to be executed. Grounds for clemency: unspecified favourable circumstances appearing in their favour during the trial. Initial sentence: death. Recommendation: mercy.
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Folios 197-200.
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- English
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Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals
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Letter from Mr M Ley, Town Clerk of Exeter, enclosing a certificate of recommendation...
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