11 individual petitions (the prisoner [5], Eliza Snape, prisoner's wife [4], Mary...

11 individual petitions (the prisoner [5], Eliza Snape, prisoner's wife [4], Mary Howlet formerly Mary Snape, the prisoner's mother and Sir Thomas Heathcote) and 9 collective petitions (7 people, his wife and children; 12 people, the trial jury; 53 people, from Southwark and Lambeth, with an unsigned note; 71 people, from Liverpool, Lancashire; 136 people from the Strand, Lambeth, Pentonville, Hoxton, Bethnal Green, Covent Garden, some trades/addresses given; 23 people, from St. Pancras, Clerkenwell, Somers Town and members of the Stock Exchange; 21 people, from Lambeth, Newington and the Strand; 43 people, Marylebone, High Holborn, Westminster, Lambeth, the Strand and Chelsea; these places mainly across London, Middlesex and Surrey; and 266 people 'members of the Stock Exchange (some of the first Men in the City of London)' many members of Lloyds of London) on behalf of John Snape, purser in HM. Navy, convicted at the [Old Bailey] in [1822], for 'forging certain Instruments' concerning property of HM. Navy. There are letters from George Canning, William Frederick, Eliza Snape, Captain Harwood and the Duke of Clarence.

Grounds for clemency: previous good character, has been a purser in HM. Navy for 17 years, has shown bravery and was wounded many times in action, received testimonials in court from the captain and officers of his ship (these people are named), he had no intent to defraud, he always charged himself with the amounts in the forged documents to ensure no-one else sustained a loss and always accounted for monies received (and he supplies a financial account in his petition), has supplied a plan to the government on raising taxes (part of the plan appears to be drawn up around one of his petitions), has a dependent wife and 6 children, none of the witnesses would claim to have lost any money in the transactions, petition was signed by the most respectable people in Liverpool, the mother is grieving for her son and the court recommended the prisoner to mercy. Initial sentence: death.