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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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Petition from John Foy Edgar and Azariah Pinney, Sheriffs of the City of Bristol...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/20/65
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This record is about the Petition from John Foy Edgar and Azariah Pinney, Sheriffs of the City of Bristol... dating from 1796 Nov 12 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 47/20/65
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1796 Nov 12
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Description (What the record is about)
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Petition from John Foy Edgar and Azariah Pinney, Sheriffs of the City of Bristol on behalf of Henry Thatcher, servant, convicted for receiving goods stolen at a fair and sentenced to 7 years transportation (2 of which have almost elapsed). Grounds for clemency: previous good character, able bodied and willing to serve on land or at sea. The sheriffs consider it a duty in times of national danger to state that there are other able bodied men deserving of an alleviation of sentence in the same gaol. Note on reverse of petition: 'This case was referred to the Recorder of Bristol 8 July 1795 the Report unfavourable as to Thatcher and William Homer [William Horner] in the same Gaol'. Folios 355-356.
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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/C9175963/
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Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals
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