QSR1851/2/3/4

Petition of support from the inhabitants of Leighton Buzzard, with regard to Henry Wybrow accused of stealing lead affixed to a building.

5 April 1851

From: 1851 To: 1851

Signed by 21 inhabitants of Leighton Buzzard - having known Thomas Wybrow and his wife for a very considerable time, sympathize with them in their present trouble - Henry Wybrow their son, of 14 years being confined in the County gaol for stealing a very small quantity of lead, the value of 2 shillings - Believe he had been led into this evil through the influence of bad example - Entreat the exercise of the prerogative of mercy.

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Wybrow, Henry,
Wybrow, Thomas,
Nevill, John,
Carter, C,
Young, James,
Harnell, Thomas,
Aveline, George,
Cooper,
Marshall, John,
White, Thomas,
Hopkins, James,
King, Thomas,
Hopkins, John,
Sims, John,
White, William,
Simmons, W,
Kent, William,
Bennett, William H.,
Readman, William,
Woodstock, William,
Gibbs, George

LEIGHTON BUZZARD, stealing, lead, petitions, Wesleyan Methodist, churchwardens