Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 individual petition (prisoner)...

Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 individual petition (prisoner) and 1 collective petition (41 people, from in/around London, including the Ordinary of Newgate) on behalf of John Cave, convicted (with John Partington) in October 1789, for a burglary and stealing 1 gold snuff box and other articles, value £126:10:0, property of John William Anderson, Alderman of the City of London, on 21/22 September 1789. Evidences supplied by Catherine Towers, servant to Mr Anderson; John Paddington, constable; John Townsend, constable[?]; Richard Arnett, bookkeeper at the Axe inn at Aldermanbury; Patrick Macmanus, George Clark; keeper of The Two Chairmen inn at Berkley Square; Elizabeth Thompson, servant to George Clark, Edward Lasceter and Mr Hongham. Grounds for clemency: youth (age not given - 'being very young') first offence, previous good character, promise of good future behaviour, is contrite, was drawn into crime by Partington, was recommended to mercy by Mr Anderson and offers his services to HM. Navy. Initial sentence: death, respited/commuted to unspecified sentence. Recommendation: no further mercy, comments that the king has already spared his life and that Partington had already been executed.

Folios 285-291.