Hi Laraine I'll onsend OFFLIST the five pages of his petition and the subsequent notes I found at HO17/89/QP/16, Do you want the clipping from the newspaper concerning his trial as well? Regards Ian Jordan

An apology to the list ... Now that I have downloaded the images of the Petition etc I have been able to zoom them and improve the contrast. Looking more closely at one of the images HO17/089/00200, it seems I misread the document when I first came across it. It seems the reference is not to Wm. Fowler and his son but Mrs Fowler and her son - it is only when you zoom the image that the latter reading is the better. In my defence, the superscription of rs after a rather flowery M was easy to mistake for a curlicued W followed by a superscribed m and the "her" was easy to mistake for a "his" - those of you who have tried to read C19th handwriting will, I'm sure, understand. I'm sorry if I have sent hares running after a Wm. Fowler of Bristol. Regards