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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
Item
Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 individual petition (prisoner)...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/12/51
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This record is about the Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 individual petition (prisoner)... dating from 1790 Aug 20 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 47/12/51
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1790 Aug 20
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Description (What the record is about)
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Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 individual petition (prisoner) on behalf of Michael Lee, convicted at the Old Bailey in February 1789, for stealing a wooden trunk covered in seal skin and containing various articles, value £7:14:6 (elsewhere £10:1:6), property of Lovelace Bigg, at Seven Dials in London. There is also 1 collective petition/reference signed by 3 people. Evidences supplied by Lovelace Bigg, Samuel Furneau, Hugh Walker, servant to Mr Furneau; Henry Daniel, 'a Black'; ---- Richards, shoemaker; John Dixon, law officer; James Finch and the prisoner. Grounds for clemency: prosecutor received his goods back within the hour, already served 2 years in a crowed prison, suffering ill health, is contrite and penitent, crime not committed with any aggravation and good behaviour since conviction is attested by respectable people. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: to enlist in HM. Navy and to find sureties for good behaviour for the time equal to remainder of his sentence.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Folios 207-211.
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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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