Report of Giles Rooke on 1 individual petition (Martin E. Linderley, Captain of the...

Report of Giles Rooke on 1 individual petition (Martin E. Linderley, Captain of the Dumbarton Fencibles) on behalf of George Simpson, William Newton and Robert Nicholson, all keel-men, convicted at the Durham Summer Assizes, for 1) riotous assembly at the Iron Works at Swalwell (4 miles from Newcastle-upon-Tyne) with several hundred others and 2) an assault on George Heppel, manager of the iron works and Eleanor Fewsher, on 24 July 1794. Evidences supplied by George Heppell and Eleanor Fewsher. There is a letter from Captain Martin E. Lindesay requesting that the prisoners may serve in the Dumbarton Fencibles (Commanded by Colonel Campbell). Initial sentence: Simpson and Newton: on the first indictment. 2 years imprisonment each; on the second Indictment, 12 months imprisonment after the expiration of the former; both to be set on the pillory, to find sureties themselves of £20 each and to find sureties from two others of £20 each; Nicholson: 12 months imprisonment on the first indictment only (only tried on this indictment). Recommendation: Simpson and Newton, no mercy; Nicholson, mercy. Folios 92-97.