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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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Report of William Mainwaring on 1 individual petition (prisoner) on behalf of Francis...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/20/67
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This record is about the Report of William Mainwaring on 1 individual petition (prisoner) on behalf of Francis... dating from 1796 Nov 22 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 Nov 22
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Description (What the record is about)
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Report of William Mainwaring on 1 individual petition (prisoner) on behalf of Francis Antonio Dias, a Portuguese keeper of a boarding house for foreigners, convicted (with 3 others of the same country) on 28 October 1795, for assault, (attacking American sailors in an ale house in 'Shadwell or Stepney' in Middlesex, causing a riot, breaking windows and furniture, stabbing Edward Bunn [or Edmund Byrne] in the chest, on 7 September 1795. The prisoner is currently held in the Middlesex House of Correction, Cold Bath Fields. Grounds for clemency: that he has a wife and 3 children, is needed to help run the family business (a lodging house for foreigners), that he is seriously ill with a 'bloody flux' and unlikely to survive the coming winter if kept in prison. Initial sentence: 2 years in the Middlesex House of Correction. Recommendation: remission of the remainder of his sentence as an act of charity to his family. Folios 367-372.
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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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