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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 Thomas Burton on 2 individual petitions (the prisoner and Lord Coventry)...
Catalogue reference: HO 47/21/26
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This record is about the Report of Thomas Burton on 2 individual petitions (the prisoner and Lord Coventry)... dating from 1797 June 13 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 47/21/26
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1797 June 13
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Report of Thomas Burton on 2 individual petitions (the prisoner and Lord Coventry) and 1 collective petition (25 people, of the City of Worcester) on behalf of Robert Phelps, butcher and freeman of the City of Worcester, convicted at the Court of King's Bench, for an assault on an Excise Officer. There is a covering letter to the towns-peoples petition from Thomas Tebbutt. Grounds for clemency: prisoner was provoked by the excise officer who was not on duty, 2 small children, his wife is deceased and has no one to help run his business. Initial sentence: 6 months imprisonment. Recommendation: no mercy. Folios 156-163.
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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/C9175996/
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Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals
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