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Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 individual petition (prisoner)...

Catalogue reference: HO 47/22/11

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This record is about the Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 individual petition (prisoner)... dating from 1798 Apr 30 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 47/22/11
Date
1798 Apr 30
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Report of John William Rose, Recorder of London, on 1 individual petition (prisoner) and 3 collective petitions (12 people, the jury; 20 people, from Clapham in Surrey; and 7 people, from Piccadilly, Westminster) on behalf of Robert Young, convicted at the Old Bailey for stealing a leather trunk and other articles, value £8:10:0, property of Margaret Simmonds, nursery maid to Mrs Nepean. The trunk had gone missing whist another trunk was fetched from a carriage. The prisoner said he had been called away from assisting Miss Simmonds and he had no knowledge of who had stolen the trunk. Evidences supplied by Margaret Simmonds and the prisoner. Grounds for clemency: previous good character and lack of evidence. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: to find security for the term equal to remainder of sentence. Folios 58-62.

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English
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