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Report of Beaumont Hotham on 3 individual petitions (prisoner; Sarah Hall, prisoner's...

Catalogue reference: HO 47/14/23

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This record is about the Report of Beaumont Hotham on 3 individual petitions (prisoner; Sarah Hall, prisoner's... dating from 1792 Apr 20 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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1792 Apr 20

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Report of Beaumont Hotham on 3 individual petitions (prisoner; Sarah Hall, prisoner's wife, and J Cumin, carpenter and the prisoner's employer) and 1 collective petition (12 people, from Southwark in Surrey, many with trades and occupations given, including the churchwardens of St Saviour's) on behalf of John Hall, carpenter, convicted (with William Smith) at the Kent Assizes at Maidstone, for stealing muslin, property of Daniel Wicker, of Tunbridge, on 20 September 1791. The respectability of the people signing the collective petition is testified by William Love, curate at St Saviour's in Southwark. The judge considers the prisoner to be part of a gang. Evidence supplied by a waggoner and a constable. Grounds for clemency: has a dependent wife and children, previous good character, from a respectable family, employer speaks well of him, innocent of the crime, prosecuted for 'Blood Money' [reward]. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: no mercy. Folios 139-146.

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