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Report of William Mainwaring, Chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, on 1 individual...

Catalogue reference: HO 47/12/96

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This record is about the Report of William Mainwaring, Chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, on 1 individual... dating from 1790 Apr 24 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 47/12/96
Date
1790 Apr 24
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Report of William Mainwaring, Chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, on 1 individual petition (prisoner, written in French) on behalf of Peter/Pierre Guedon, convicted at the Middlesex Quarter Sessions on 14 April 1790, for an assault on James Chapman, Officer of Excise, on 2 August 1789. Evidences supplied by James Chapman, Abraham Joseph Baert, wax chandler (prisoner in Newgate for forgery); Mrs Herone, Baert's mother-in-law, and the prisoner. Grounds for clemency: confined in a cold damp room causing ill health which is endangering his life, innocent of the crime, committed through imprudence not lack of respect for the law, he is a foreigner, has a family to support and previous good character. Initial sentence: 14 days in prison. Recommendation: no mercy.

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Folios 369-372.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9021238/

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