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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 Soulden Lawrence on 1 individual petition (Richard Martin, prosecutor and...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/21/12
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This record is about the Report of Soulden Lawrence on 1 individual petition (Richard Martin, prosecutor and... dating from 1797 Mar 23 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 47/21/12
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1797 Mar 23
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Description (What the record is about)
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Report of Soulden Lawrence on 1 individual petition (Richard Martin, prosecutor and cousin to the prisoner) on behalf of George Martin, convicted at the 'last' Gloucestershire Assizes (with 6 others [unnamed]), for horse stealing, property of Richard Martin, on 20 April 1795. Evidences supplied by Richard Martin, John Deffett/John Deffelt, lives at the Arsholt/Arshott Inn in Somerset; James Mogg, John Lilley, James Wilkins, William Gingell, George Buckingham, ------ Nibbett and James Ingo. There is a note from R.P. Whitton, Under Sheriff of Gloucestershire, recording the receipt of a respite from execution, dated 26 March 1797. Grounds for clemency: previous good character, is innocent, the whole is much distressed by the sentence, the prosecutor felt obliged to prosecute and is very distressed also, has a wife and 9 children to support all in distress. Initial sentence: death, respited. Recommendation: transportation for life. Folios 62-69. See also HO 47/21/16, folios 78-98.
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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/C9175982/
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Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals
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