Catalogue description Prisoner name: Edward Goddard. Prisoner age: 19. Prisoner occupation: Labourer of Eyke,...

Prisoner name: Edward Goddard.

Prisoner age: 19.

Prisoner occupation: Labourer of Eyke, Suffolk.

Court and date of trial: Suffolk Lent Assizes, Bury St Edmunds, 20 March 1834.

Crime: Offences against the Game Laws - on the land of the Marquis of Hertford in the parish of Sudbourn, Suffolk in early January 1834.

Initial sentence: Seven years transportation.

Gaoler's report: 'Indifferent character'.

Annotated: Ordered to the Penitentiary 2 May 1834.

Petitioner(s): Edward Goddard (the convict) undersigned by Henry Browne Longe (Chaplain to the Woodbridge, Suffolk Bridewell) and 25 inhabitants of Eyke and its environs. Robert Blythe.

Grounds for clemency: Induced to the crime by his more mature confederates, one of whom beat a gamekeeper who mistook Goddard for this man; his previous exemplary character.

Additional Information: He was tried with [five] others, four of whom (un-named) received sentence of one year's imprisonment. The other named as Joseph Fox beat one of the gamekeepers and received a sentence of seven years transportation.