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Certificate/memorial of Richard Perrryn and James Mingay on prisoners capitally convicted...

Catalogue reference: HO 47/18/76

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HO 47/18/76

Date

1795 June 5

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Certificate/memorial of Richard Perrryn and James Mingay on prisoners capitally convicted on the Norfolk Lent Circuit in 1795 and recommended to mercy on the conditions set against their names:

Bedfordshire at Bedford 12 March 1795

1. Thomas Page, convicted for highway robbery. Recommendation: 12 months imprisonment and hard labour.

Huntingdonshire 14 March 1795

2. Thomas Blunsum, convicted for felony and sheep stealing. Recommendation: 7 years transportation. See also HO 47/18/13, folios 52-56.

Norfolk 20 March 1795

3. Thomas Arnold, convicted for felony and burglary Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

4. Robert Gunn, convicted for felony and burglary. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

5. John Driver, convicted for highway robbery. Recommendation: transportation for life. See also HO 47/18/16, folios 74-83 (Gunn).

Suffolk at Bury St. Edmunds 25 March 1795

6. James Harrax, convicted for felony and sheep stealing. Recommendation: 14 years transportation.

7. Miles Mills, convicted for being at large before his sentence of 7 years transportation was expired. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

Liberty of Bury St. Edmunds (Suffolk)

8. John Bradfield, convicted on 25 March 1795, for stealing heifers.

Recommendation: transportation for life.

Folios 306-307.

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