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[See HO 17/3/14].
Catalogue reference: HO 17/16/46
Date: [1828]
[See HO 17/3/14].
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1 individual petition (Thomas Carlyle, the prisoners' counsel) and 1 collective petition...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/11/12
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This record is about the 1 individual petition (Thomas Carlyle, the prisoners' counsel) and 1 collective petition... dating from 1827 Apr 8 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HO 17/11/12
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1827 Apr 8
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1 individual petition (Thomas Carlyle, the prisoners' counsel) and 1 collective petition (the prisoners) from George Wilson, shoemaker and Robert Wilson, tailor, convicted at the High Court of Justiciary held at Edinburgh on 18 December 1826 of theft, value 6/-. Grounds for clemency: the prisoners are innocent of the crime, ask that their sentences be commuted to imprisonment in Scotland, request permission to continue in their trades, neither prisoner has a previous criminal record and their employers attest their good character, family members have given long, loyal service to the king's army (Richard Wilson, 78th Regiment of Foot, George Mc Lachlan, 75th Regiment of Foot, John McDonald, 42nd Regiment of Foot) and both prisoners have large families who will be left destitute should they be transported. Initial sentence: 7 years transportation. AM 12. [Scot]
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9463994/
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HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
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