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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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Report of Soulden Lawrence on 1 collective petition (48 people, from Rochester) on...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/18/15
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This record is about the Report of Soulden Lawrence on 1 collective petition (48 people, from Rochester) on... dating from 1795 Apr 15 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)
- 1795 Apr 15
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Report of Soulden Lawrence on 1 collective petition (48 people, from Rochester) on behalf of Susannah Keys, cook to the prosecutor, convicted at the Kent Spring Assizes at Maidstone in March 1794, for stealing a number of china cups, plates, saucers, dishes etc. and other small items, value about £1:3:0, property of Robert Bristow, attorney-at-law, Rochester. Evidences supplied by the prisoner, Robert Bristow, Edward Wright, Elizabeth Simcock, John Beaumont, constable and Ann Saunders, inn keeper. There are two covering letters to the petition from Josiah Dornford. Grounds for clemency: age (19 years), previous good character, first offence, 'believed the Devil was in her' and the prisoner maintained her aged mother. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: none given. Folios 63-73.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open on Transfer
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals
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