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Covering letter to a report [see below] from John Matthew Grimwood, Recorder of Colchester...

Catalogue reference: HO 47/22/27

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This record is about the Covering letter to a report [see below] from John Matthew Grimwood, Recorder of Colchester... dating from 1798 July 16 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 47/22/27
Date
1798 July 16
Description

Covering letter to a report [see below] from John Matthew Grimwood, Recorder of Colchester on 1 individual petition (prisoner) and 1 collective petition (5 people, churchwardens and magistrates from Bradfield and Bentley in Essex) on behalf of John Mixter, blacksmith, convicted at the Colchester Quarter Sessions in Essex, on 8 January 1798, for breaking and entering a barn and taking a lock, value 4d, property of Byham Hewes, farmer. There is a covering letter to the collective petition from R. Thornton. Grounds for clemency: previous good character, is truly sorry for the crime, men of credit have signed his petition and has an infirm wife. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. Recommendation: none given. Folios 145-152. See also HO 47/22/29, folios 157-160.

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Language
English
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Covering letter to a report [see below] from John Matthew Grimwood, Recorder of Colchester...

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