Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 collective petition (12 people...

Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 collective petition (12 people including the prisoner's mother, as well as a magistrate, town clerk and Mayor of Carlisle) and 1 individual petition (prisoner), as well as favourable letters from Duncan Campbell, Gaoler of the Prudentia hulk and Mr Dodds, on behalf of Thomas Kirk/Thomas Kirkbride, [convicted] at the Old Bailey on 12 September 1792, (with Robert Wallis/Robert Wallace; Wallace was to be transported for life but died before he left the river Thames) for breaking into a dwelling house and stealing 4 cauls for caps and other articles, value £6:16:0, property of Henry Appleton. Evidences from Isabella Bolton, cook to Mr Appleton, Sarah Bendfield, neighbour, and Mary Eddington. Grounds for clemency: youth (21 years), the family's first offence, that his mother is old, frail and a widow, requests that he is allowed to serve in the army or navy. Initial sentence death, commuted to 14 years transportation to New South Wales, currently held on the Prudentia hulk at Woolwich. Recommendation: pardon on condition he enlists to serve in the army in the East or West Indies.

Also included is a letter from John Baynes Garforth seeking the result of the petition relative to Kirkbride, and enquiring as to what steps can be taken regarding two female convicts (Violet Chambers and Ann Hamilton alias Ann Gregg) due to be transported but currently held in the Giltspar Street Compter at great expense to the county of Cumberland.

Folios 16-27.