2 individual petitions (prisoner [also a copy of his petition] and Richard Terry,...

2 individual petitions (prisoner [also a copy of his petition] and Richard Terry, prosecutor) and 1 collective petition (44 people, from Ripley, Knaresborough, Nidd Hall, Nidd, Hampsthwaite, Harrogate, Pannal, Stainley in Yorkshire West Riding) on Peter Buck, tanner of Ripley, convicted at the Yorkshire Assizes at York, on 10 March 1798, for a highway robbery on Richard Terry, on 30 August 1797. There are covering letters to the petitions from J. Bainbridge; and an account of the robbery written by Terry, witnessed by and given to J. Bainbridge. Grounds for clemency: did not intend to kill Terry, there was no ball in his firearm and the prisoner did not harm him other than singeing his hair, even after the prosecutor said 'he knew Buck' and Buck knew he had no chance of escaping prosecution, the location of the money taken has been disclosed and the money will be restored to the prosecutor, prisoner has a wife and 4 small children, previous good character and has respectable family connections. Initial sentence: death. Annotated, 'Nothing to be done'. Folios 31-41.