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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
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Catalogue reference: HO 47/8/21
This record is about the Report of Beaumont Hotham on 1 collective petition (3 people) and 1 individual petition... dating from 1789 Apr 28 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Report of Beaumont Hotham on 1 collective petition (3 people) and 1 individual petition (Robert Selwell, father of the prisoner) on behalf of Thomas Selwell, convicted at the Hampshire Assizes at Winchester in March 1786, for stealing items of clothing, property of Joseph Harrington, lodging house keeper. The items were pawned for half a guinea to a Jewish pawnbroker. Evidences supplied by Robert Bunn and Noah Smith, master and mate of the Fortune hulk where prisoner has been confined 3 years) There is also a covering letter from Henry Hobart of Norwich. Grounds for clemency: well behaved while on the hulks and deserves a chance in society and the father claims to have recompensed the victim of the crime for his loss. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: free pardon (to allow him to join the crew of a vessel in Portsmouth harbour).
Folios 82-86.
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