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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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Certificate/memorial of Nash Grose and Alexander Thomson on prisoners capitally convicted...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/18/72
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- HO 47/18/72
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1795]
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Certificate/memorial of Nash Grose and Alexander Thomson on prisoners capitally convicted on the Oxford Circuit in 1795[?] and recommended to mercy on the conditions set against their names:
Oxfordshire at Oxford
1. Henry Drewitt, convicted for sheep stealing. Recommendation: 12 months imprisonment at hard labour.
2. Richard Smart, convicted for housebreaking. Recommendation: transportation for life.
Worcestershire at Worcester
3. Richard Weston, convicted for housebreaking. Recommendation: transportation for life.
4. John Carter, for horse stealing. Recommendation: transportation for life.
5. William Carter, for horse stealing. Recommendation: transportation for life.
Monmouthshire at Monmouth
6. Owen Bryan, convicted for stealing above 40/- in a dwelling house. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.
Shropshire at Shrewsbury
7. Isaac Priest convicted for sheep stealing. Recommendation: 6 months imprisonment at hard labour.
8. Benjamin Priest, convicted for sheep stealing. Recommendation: 12 months imprisonment at hard labour.
Gloucestershire at Gloucester
9. John Curtis, convicted for high treason (coining a sixpence). Recommendation: transportation for life.
Berkshire at Reading
10. William Langley, convicted for stealing a mare. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.
Herefordshire at Hereford
11. Dennis Corbet/Dennis Corbel convicted for stealing above 40/- in a dwelling house. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.
Staffordshire at Stafford
12. Thomas Cooper, convicted for horse stealing, Recommendation: 7 years transportation.
13. John Green, convicted for horse stealing. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.
14. William Thurstans, convicted for sheep stealing. Recommendation: 12 months imprisonment at hard labour.
John Pratton, convicted in 1791/92, for grand larceny, and has been in gaol ever since. At the 'last' assizes the visiting magistrates reported he has behaved well and has discovered, and informed the authorities of, at least one attempt of a prisoner's escape plan.. Recommendation: free pardon.
Folios 298-299.
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- 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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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9175817/
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HO 47
Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals
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