Catalogue description Prisoner names: William Adams and Nathaniel Hale. Court and date of trial: Adams: Surrey...

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Details of HO 17/43/117
Reference: HO 17/43/117
Description:

Prisoner names: William Adams and Nathaniel Hale.

Court and date of trial: Adams: Surrey Lent Assizes March 1838. Hale: Central Criminal Court July 1837.

Crime: Adams: Offence against the Game Laws. Hale: [Accessory to having plates for forging Polish notes.].

Initial sentence: Adams: one year's imprisonment [with hard labour]. Hale: two years' imprisonment [with hard labour].

Annotated: 'Remission and Answered 24 December 1838.'

Other papers: Letter from Visiting Magistrates, Chairman and [illegible], enclosing a medical certificate from [J H Taylor], surgeon, stating Adams and Hale have pulmonary disease. Letter from three Visiting Magistrates, Guildford House of Correction [Surrey] enclosing a further medical certificate from [J H Taylor] on the failing health of Adams and Hale.

Date: 1838 Dec
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Fz 24
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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