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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 47/12/55
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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 27 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 47/12/55
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1790 Aug 27
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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 Lemon Barber, seaman, convicted at the Old Bailey in May 1786, for stealing sundry articles ('a Shew Glass & several brushes'), value £1:3:8, property of William Bevan, shopkeeper, on 1 April.1786[?]. Evidences supplied by William Bevan, William Waters, of Justice Hides Office, James Adams and the prisoner. Prisoner currently on the hulk, the Censor at Woolwich. Grounds for clemency: crime committed with no aggravation, good behaviour since conviction, had served in HM. Navy on board HMS Prosepine and HMS Sandwich ['of Ninety Gun'], had fallen out with family members and fallen in with bad company, is penitent, had served 4-5 years (and suffered 'every Distressing Calamity therewith'). 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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Folios 219-222.
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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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