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Copy of Letter from Richard Beardsley, a convict sentenced to 7 years transportation for robbing a dovehouse, to Mr. Curtis at Hoops Inn, Cambridge, asking for help of Mr. Hibbert and Dr. Ramsden...." Mr. William Hogg and some more of the Biggleswade gentlemen as they call themselves have been very busy to get me out of the country ........ I little thought of coming to this when I used to play at bowles on the green in the guarding ... I wish I had never left Cambridge ..... They would have hung me if they could." Accompanying note to Wilshere asking if it is proper to send to final destination

8 Dec. 1818

From: 1818 To: 1818

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Beardsley, Richard,
Curtis,
Hibbert,
Ramsden,
Hogg, William,
Wilshere

Quarter Sessions, transportation, dovehouses, Cambridge, BIGGLESWADE