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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 47/14/20
This record is about the Report of Francis Buller on 1 collective petition (33 people, including ministers,... dating from 1792 Apr 6 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Report of Francis Buller on 1 collective petition (33 people, including ministers, ex-employers and churchwardens of Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire) on behalf of Thomas Steerman, pattern-ring maker, convicted (with John Lucas) at the Yorkshire Assizes at York, for 2 burglaries 1 of which was the 'stripping a shop of Goods to the value of 6 or 700£'. The judge states that the prisoner was 1 of a criminal gang working in Yorkshire. Grounds for clemency: youth (26 years), previous good character and was led astray by Lucas (also under sentence of death for the same crime). Initial sentence: death. Recommendation: no mercy. Folios 129-132.
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