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Letter from Giles Rooke stating that Edward Newton and Thomas Holmes were convicted...

Catalogue reference: HO 47/20/34

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This record is about the Letter from Giles Rooke stating that Edward Newton and Thomas Holmes were convicted... dating from 1796 Apr 18 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 47/20/34
Date
1796 Apr 18
Description

Letter from Giles Rooke stating that Edward Newton and Thomas Holmes were convicted at the Nottinghamshire Assizes in March 1796 (along with others) for violently assembling and taking a quantity of corn, 21 hempen bags, 10 quarters of oats and 3 quarters of wheat. They were initially sentenced to be transported, but received favourable recommendations from the gentlemen of the neighbourhood, and Rooke has applied to the Crown to have their sentences changed to 12 months imprisonment (which appears to have been lost). As a year has now passed Rooke requests that an order is sent to Nottingham for their discharge. Folios 190-191. See also HO 47/20/12, folios 58-59.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Language
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/C9175932/

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