Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    W1/5218
  • Title
    Sir Home Popham [to Samuel Whitbread II]
  • Date free text
    22 January 1815
  • Production date
    From: 1815 To: 1815
  • Scope and Content
    Has no knowledge of his own of the case; the petitioners have waited 9 years before making representations; probable some one would have heard of it at the time. Is aware that before the "Slave Act" some captives were sold, but "knows no instance where redress has not immediately been given to a person in the situation of one of the Petitioners when a proper representation of such a grivance was made".
  • Level of description
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