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    1. [AUS-CON] Convicts Reprieved 1831
    2. Trev Symonds
    3. Hi List, A friend in London has just sent me the reprieve for my Tasmanian convict from the UK National Archives. Posting all the names in the document in case any of the others belong to someone on the List. Cheers Trish Nowra NSW To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty - These are humbly to Certify unto Your Majesty that at the last session of Gaol Delivery holden for the Home Circuit on the Days and at the places after mentioned the following persons were Convicted of the Crimes hereunder specified and severally received Judgment of Death for the same. But some favourable circumstances appearing on their behalf respectively at and since their Trial they are now humbly recommended to Your Majesty as proper objects of Your Majestys Loyal Mercy and Compassion on the several conditions set against their respective names in the margin hereof. All which is most humbly submitted to Your Majestys Royal Will and Pleasure. Dated the seventeenth day of August 1831. ESSEX - To be transported beyond the seas for the term of their respective natural lives - James HOWSLAND Joseph MILLER William WHITE Charles BOREHAM John SAMS David BROWN Joseph HUGHES Joseph DARBY William LEWIS Thomas SMITH alias FLOOD John DYTCH Joseph COLLINS To be once whipped in gaol and discharged - William WALKER Jeremiah SWEETNG To be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the convict gal at Springfield six weeks - Joseph BACON HERTFORD - Pardoned and discharged Samuel STERNS To be Transported behond the seas for the term of their respective natural lives - Samuel DOLLIMORE William ESTCOURT Joseph SPICER To be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction one year - William BIGNOLD To be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction six weeks - Matthew HOWELLS KENT - To be transported beyond the seas for the term of his natural life - William FRENCH alias BOYLE John OWENS James PEAKE To be transported behond the seas for the term of seven years - David VENSON David BIRD William BAKER To be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction one year - Alexander EWART William HAYES SURREY - To be Transported beyond the seas for the term of their respective Natural Lives - John EVERALL alias Henry PEARCE alias Henry PEARCY Thomas SMITH (looks like No 16 after his name) David PAICE alias FULMER Solomon HITCHCOCK Robert TOMBLING Charles PAICE alias FULMER To be Transported beyond the Seas for the term of Fourteen years - Henry LEE alias LEWIS Thomas SMITH (looks like No 8 after his name) Thomas PHILLIPS Jane RAY To be transported beyond the seas for the term of seven years - William ATKINS John FENCOCK To be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction at Guildford one year - William COLEMAN

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