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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 183

Great Britain
Crime & Punishment 1768-1836
1768 Part printed / manuscript instruction to the Governor of Tothill-Fields, Bridewell from a Bow Street magistrate sending a woman "of evil fame and a disorderly night walker" to serve her sentence of hard labour; 1817 Printed Five Guineas Reward notice for the apprehension of "some evil disposed Person or Persons who entered the Dwelling House of Mr John Flintoff, in the Green Bat, Alnwick and
carried away a LARGE TRUNK"; 1826 printed Notice for Northumberland titled "A Calendar of Prisoners" giving details of five prisoners aged 15-26 years old accused of robbery, with a 15 year old female sentenced to hard labour for twelve months "having been tried for Larceny"; 1836 printed notice offering a 6 Guineas reward by the Henfield Prosecuting Society following the carrying away "from a Farm at Henfield TWO DUCKS, the property of the said Stephen Falconer" (5)

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