2 individual petitions (the prisoner and Samuel Walker, the prisoner's father) and...

2 individual petitions (the prisoner and Samuel Walker, the prisoner's father) and 2 collective petition (6 people, including the prisoner's father and 3 local magistrates and 2 people the prisoner and Robert Gray, magistrate) on behalf of Samuel Walker, tried (with Alexander Hamilton) and convicted at the Circuit Court held at Glasgow in May 1827 of assault and robbery of 17/- against Thomas Glass, carter. The petition from Samuel Walker, Snr mentions that his son is 'now lying at the Cove of Cork'. There is a covering letter from Archibald Campbell; 4 certificates of good behaviour from William Brebner, Keeper, Glasgow Bridewell; William Craig, elder and commissioner of police [x2]; Joseph Somerville, minister of St John's Chapel; a statement from the procurator fiscal of Glasgow [signature illegible]; a letter from Agness Walker, the prisoner's mother and a letter to the prisoner in Glasgow gaol from Henry Stuart. Grounds for clemency: youth (16 years), Alexander Hamilton was the more guilty party (his sentence has already been reduced), the prisoner took no active part in the assault but pleaded guilty to a robbery which was not premeditated and the prisoner is of previous good character. Initial sentence: transportation for life AN 11. [Scot]