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Report of Charles Fawcett, Recorder of Newcastle, on 1 collective petition (17 people)...

Catalogue reference: HO 47/12/98

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This record is about the Report of Charles Fawcett, Recorder of Newcastle, on 1 collective petition (17 people)... dating from 1790 May 7 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 47/12/98
Date
1790 May 7
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Report of Charles Fawcett, Recorder of Newcastle, on 1 collective petition (17 people) on behalf of Luke Weatherhead, convicted at the Christmas Newcastle Upon Tyne Quarter Sessions in 1789, for stealing 1 fighting cock, property of William Oxley, clay miller, on 27 December. Evidences supplied by William Wilson, publican; William Oxley and the prisoner. Grounds for clemency: first offence, has suffered a number of accidents leaving him lame, weak in 1 arm and suffered a fractured skull, he was drunk at the time of the crime, he had purchased the cock from another person, and has a wife and family now in great distress. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: no mercy (he being regularly before the local court for misdemeanors).

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Folios 375-377.

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Language
English
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Open Document, Open Description
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