Report (the short report is written on the back of the petition) of Sir Joseph Mawbey...

Report (the short report is written on the back of the petition) of Sir Joseph Mawbey on 1 individual petition (prisoner) and 1 collective petition (2 people, the prosecutors, Southwark in Surrey) on behalf of Robert Hampton, servant, convicted at the Surrey Quarter Sessions in January 1789, for having forged orders to obtain alcohol, from William Thomas, brandy merchant, and other goods, property of John Weaver, cheesemonger. Grounds for clemency: youth (19 years), previous good character, his father (at Wandsworth in Surrey) is also of good character, he was duped by people who saw he was entrusted with carrying goods from Wandsworth to London and who encouraged him to associate with them (at the home of Thomas Johnson, a noted boxer in Southwark), crime committed when the prisoner was drunk, had earlier been recommended to mercy on condition of enlistment but rejected as unfit (a rupture) by the East India Company and so required other arrangements, had been offered employment on the island of St Lawrence and can provide securities for transporting himself there. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: to transport himself (friends to transport him).

Folios 353-354.