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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
Item
Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 individual petition (prisoner)...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/20/39
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This record is about the Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 individual petition (prisoner)... dating from 1796 May 7 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1796 May 7
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Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 individual petition (prisoner) and 1 collective petition (25 people including the prosecutor, several from Whitechapel, Middlesex) on behalf of Margaret Horford, keeper of the Court House public house in Whitechapel, convicted at the 'last' Old Bailey sessions, for receiving a stolen watch knowing it to be stolen by Jane Hutton and Mary Ash on 2 November, property of Henry Seymour, keeper of the White Horse livery stables at Mile-End. Rose states that the case was aggravated because she was a publican (and well positioned to take in such crimes). Evidences supplied by Henry Seymour, George Allan, rope maker; George Cox, Francis Fordham, John Griffiths, Mary Kirby, Isabella Paul, the prisoner and 4 others. Grounds for clemency: previous good character, is innocent, supports herself and her 2 children (who would be left destitute without her) by running the public house (her husband having left her). Initial sentence: 14 years transportation. Recommendation: no mercy. Folios 210-215.
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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 Document, Open Description
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Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals
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