Original petitions made by convicted persons or their friends, relations etc., seeking the revocation or reduction of their sentences. Attached to some petitions are related papers and some returns, made by the governors of convict prisons, of convicts recommended for early release for good behaviour.
The petitions were made between 1819 and 1839; some of the related papers are dated after 1839. Later petitions are in HO 18.
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