Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 2 individual petitions (Sarah...

Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 2 individual petitions (Sarah Day, prisoner's mother and Paul Le Mesurier, M.P.) and 1 collective petition (20 people, neighbours of the family at All Hallows in London) on behalf of Thomas Day (convicted as Thomas King), convicted at the Old Bailey in October 1783, for stealing 2 muslin aprons and other women's wearing apparel, value 15/-, property of Elizabeth Gillett, on 18 October 1783. Evidences supplied by Charles Owen, Hackney coachman and H Tough. Following an alleged mutiny on board the convict ship Day returned to London and was apprehended on 7 October 1784. He was tried for returning from transportation, and was capitally convicted in the October Sessions in 1784. He was respited on 4 December, and in January 1785 received sentence of 7 years transportation. Grounds for clemency: theft was a first offence, he did not resist when apprehended on his early return, an offer of employment by his mother and also from Edward Musson of the Stand in London, and has served 3 years hard labour at Cumberland Fort. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: no further mercy.

Folios 192-197.

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Shipping

Labour

Transportation

Pardons

Crime

Sex and gender