Catalogue description Certificate/memorial of Henry Gould and Beaumont Hotham on prisoners attainted on the...

Certificate/memorial of Henry Gould and Beaumont Hotham on prisoners attainted on the Home Circuit, reprieved on 'favourable circumstances' and recommended for mercy on the conditions set against their names:

Essex Assizes at Chelmsford, 5 March

1. John Chapman, for stealing a bay gelding, value £20, property of John Finer, junior. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

2. Joseph Saveall and William Forster, for a burglary in the house of Jamineau Cheveley, and stealing goods and money, value £5:1:0. Recommendation: 7 years transportation

Hertfordshire Assizes, 1 March

3. Charles Long, for stealing £17:7:0 in money, property of Thomas Deacon. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

4. Thomas Jelly, for stealing 1 ewe sheep, value 20/-, property of the Right Honourable Richard Earl Howey. Recommendation: 7 years transportation

Kent Assizes at Maidstone, 2 April

5. John Wicken, for stealing 1 wether sheep, value 20/-, property of William Hawkes. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

6. William Burner, for stealing 2 heifers, value £12, property of Thomas Charlton. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

7. David Standen, for stealing a bay mare, value £15, property of John Day junior. Recommendation: transportation for life.

8. John Smith, for highway robbery and taking property, value £3:10:0, property of Richard Furner. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

9. William Burke, for robbery in a public place, taking goods and money, value £2:8:0, property of John Clark. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

Sussex Assizes at East Grinstead, 19 March

10. John Terry, being at large before expiration of earlier transportation sentence. Recommendation: none given.

11. Russell Hickmott alias George Hickmott, for highway robbery, taking goods, value £2:1:1, and a promissory note, value 10, property of John Cruttenden. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

12. William Colvin, for stealing a chestnut mare, value £12, property of Gregory Haines. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

Surrey Assizes at Kingston-upon-Thames, 21 March

13. Stephen Peachman and John Harvey, for highway robbery, and taking goods and money from Charles Bean and Henry Austin, value 16/2 and £1:12:7 respectively. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

14. Thomas Browning and James Armstrong, for burglary, and taking goods or money from Mary Bell, value £5:5:0. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

15. Patrick Dunn, stealing goods and money, value £10, property of Richard Neagle. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

16. William Vevers, for a highway robbery, and taking goods, value £10, from Francis Townsend; and for a highway robbery, and taking goods, value £1:12:6 and a bank note value £10, property of William Witton. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

17. William Matthews alias William Miller and Elizabeth Walker alias Elizabeth Allen, for burglary in the dwelling house of Arthur Goodwin, and taking his goods, value £11:14:6. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

18. George Collins, for burglary in the dwelling house of William Butlin, and taking his goods, value £2:1:1. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

19. George Salway, for stealing a black mare, value £5, property of James Hitchcock. Recommendation: 7 years transportation.

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