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Item (folio 144) extracted from HO 47/14/23
Catalogue reference: HO 47/14/23/1
Date: 1792
Item (folio 144) extracted from HO 47/14/23
Item
Report of William Kempe, Chairman of the Sussex Quarter Sessions, on 1 collective...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/12/99
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This record is about the Report of William Kempe, Chairman of the Sussex Quarter Sessions, on 1 collective... 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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Date (When the record was created)
- 1790 May 7
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Report of William Kempe, Chairman of the Sussex Quarter Sessions, on 1 collective petition (30 people, from Cuckfield in Sussex, including the prosecutor, minister and churchwardens) on behalf of Abraham Chatfield, labourer ('Thresher for the Prosecutor'), convicted at the Sussex Quarter Sessions at Lewes on 16 April, for stealing 1 bushell of wheat in a bag within a bound bundle of straw, value 6/-, property of John Coppard, farmer, on 22 January 'last'. There is also a letter from Kempe explaining that 'The Court of Quarter Sessions, in this Division at least, rarely pass Sentence of Transportation, except Where the Frequency of the Crime, repeat Criminality of the Prisoner, or other particular Circumstances call for Severity'. Kempe and his fellow magistrates consider this crime to be an 'increasing Evil', difficult to police and the prisoner particularly proper to be selected as an example. Grounds for clemency: first offence, previous good character, very penitent and a promise of immediate employment (by William Clutton). Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: none made.
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Folios 378-383.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals
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