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Margate Crime and Margate Punishment
Anthony Lee
Appendix II Taylor Petition
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled.
THE HUMBLE PETITION of the undersigned Inhabitants of the Parish of Saint John, Margate, in the County of Kent,
That JAMES TAYLOR, late of the Town of Margate, Bricklayer, was, with Eighteen others, tried before the Honourable Baron Wood, at the Spring Assize for the County of Kent, held at Maidstone, in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-two, for having, on the Second Day of September, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-one, feloniously assembled together with Fire Arms, and other offensive Weapons, near Marsh Bay, in the said County, for the purpose of removing Smuggled Goods.
That upon the said Trial, the said Taylor, and Eighteen others, were found guilty of the capital Offence laid to their charge, as aforesaid.
That great doubts, however, having been entertained as to the Guilt of the said Taylor, and the learned Judge, who presided at the Trial, having had reason to be dissatisfied with the Verdict of the Jury, so far as regarded the Conviction of the said Taylor, he recommended him to His Most Gracious Majesty for a free Pardon.
That, notwithstanding the said Recommendation, the said Taylor has been transported for Life.
That the most general conviction prevails in the Town and Neighbourhood of Margate, that the said Taylor is innocent of the Charge whereof he was convicted as aforesaid.
Your Petitioners therefore pray that your Honourable House may be pleased to take the case of the said James Taylor into your consideration, and to do therein as to you shall seem meet.
And your petitioners will ever pray.
Francis Cobb |
Dominick Funk |
Richard Crouch |
John Socket |
James Jolly |
Charles Dunkin |
James Wright |
Latham Osborn, jun. |
William Castell |
James Brooman |
William Culans |
Henry Brasher |
Joseph Taylor |
Robert Brasier |
William Garner |
George Crookshank |
James Dixon, jun. |
William Ingmire |
Richard M. Smithett |
Thomas J. Rowe |
William Cobb |
George Finnis |
Thomas Carthew |
Thomas Smith |
Thomas Newby |
James Peete |
William Edmunds |
Abraham R. Newby |
S. Johnson |
John Cooper |
W. Lansell |
Thomas Betsey |
W. T. Mathews |
James William Trotter |
Daniel Jarvis |
F. T. Wells |
Joseph Hallams |
Latham Osborn |
Joshua Waddington |
Thomas Cramp |
Samuel Silver |
J. Jenkins |
William G. Lewis |
F. How |
William Panic |
Thomas Young, jun. |
Robert Salter |
James Gore |
J. P. Powell, |
George Creed |
George Staner |
J. W. Cobb |
John Pierce |
William Ladd |
George H. Hoffman |
Samuel Bettison |
R. R. Mummery |
W. Miller |
Charles Winch |
Charles Robertson |
Robert Rybot |