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

Catalogue reference: HO 47/12/84

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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 Dec 9 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 47/12/84
Date
1790 Dec 9
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Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 individual petition (prisoner) and 1 collective petition (4 people, traders/gentlemen, including 1 of the prosecutors) on behalf of William Green, footman and porter, convicted in May, for stealing 6 pairs of silk stockings, value £1:18:0, property of John Handcock, Matthew Handcock and Francis Wakefield, on 29 April. Evidences supplied by Thomas Barnard, warehouseman to Messers Wakefield, Handcock and Handcock and John Darwin, servant to the prosecutors. The prisoner slept in the warehouse and was to look over or 'take care of it'. Grounds for clemency: youth (19 years), first offence, prisoner was new to London and easily led, is contrite, his mother was a widow (his father having died since the prisoner's confinement) and had 3 daughters and 1 other son unprovided for apart from by the prisoner and he undertakes to support/help them. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: no mercy.

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Folios 328-330.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
Language
English
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Open Document, Open Description
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