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Report of S. Lawrence [Soulden Lawrence] on 1 individual petition (prisoner) on behalf...

Catalogue reference: HO 47/30/19

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This record is about the Report of S. Lawrence [Soulden Lawrence] on 1 individual petition (prisoner) on behalf... dating from 1803 Apr 29 in the series Home Office: Judges' Reports on Criminals. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 47/30/19
Date
1803 Apr 29
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Report of S. Lawrence [Soulden Lawrence] on 1 individual petition (prisoner) on behalf of Ann Taylor, convicted at the City of Worcester[?] Lent Assizes in 1801, for the theft of cotton. There is a statement of ill health for Taylor from John Rayment, Surgeon at Worcester Prison annotated to the prisoner's petition together with a statement of good behaviour from William Faulkner, Worcester Prison Chaplain, and counter signed by James Griffith, Worcester Prison Gaoler. There is a covering a letter to a certificate of removal of female convicts [wanting] and the prisoner's petition from Benjamin Johnson, Worcester Town Clerk. Grounds for clemency: the prisoner had shown good behaviour over 2 years and is now in a very poor state of health. Recommendation: mercy. Folios 150-155.

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English
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