Catalogue description Report of J Bayley on 1 individual petition (William Taylor, brother in law to the...

Report of J Bayley on 1 individual petition (William Taylor, brother in law to the prisoner) and 1 collective petition (93 people) on behalf of William Longland, cordwainer, tried with (George Hurst, Joseph Hefford, William Clarke Atkin and John Marriott) and convicted at the Lincolnshire Assizes held in July 1817 for counselling, aiding and abetting a burglary or for being an accessory before the fact, in the property of Miss Morgan at Grantham. Initial sentence: death. Grounds for clemency: the prisoner's family are respectable people, the prisoner's mother has recently died, his first offence, the prisoner has lately had taken to drinking and fallen in to bad company, no violence was used towards the prosecutor or her family and the property stolen was not of considerable magnitude or value. Recommendation: transportation for life. Annotated: 'Nil'. Folios 146-149.