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Report of Beaumont Hotham on 1 individual petition (Drummond Hay Kinnoull) on behalf...

Catalogue reference: HO 47/22/22

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This record is about the Report of Beaumont Hotham on 1 individual petition (Drummond Hay Kinnoull) on behalf... dating from 1798 June 18 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 47/22/22
Date
1798 June 18
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Report of Beaumont Hotham on 1 individual petition (Drummond Hay Kinnoull) on behalf of John Church, convicted at the Essex Assizes at Chelmsford on 5 March 1798, for killing a fallow deer buck in Waltham Forest. Church has already been convicted of a similar offence and as such transportation is the only option under the law that the judge has for punishing the prisoner. The crime was committed with James Humberstone who has eluded justice. Evidences supplied by an un-named Keeper of Waltham Forest. There is a Delivery of the Gaol certificate relating to John Church, signed by J.W.Knapp, Deputy Clerk of the Assize. Grounds for clemency: the prisoner is an elderly man (age not given) and Kinnoull thinks the sentence is unusually harsh; Hotham is of the mind that Kinnoull does not know that this is the prisoner's second offence. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: no mercy. Folios 118-123.

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