Reference
QSR1818/508-509
Title
Petition by Robert Woodward to the Prince of Wales asking for the remission of his and his daughter's sentence after serving eleven months of that sentence:
Date free text
1818
Production date
From: 1818 To: 1818
Scope and Content
"Your petitioners Robert Woodward, Sarah Woodward and Susanna Woodward having been indicted for a conspiracy against one James Harris of the parish of Harrold aforesaid, in charging him the said James Harris with having committed a rape on the body of body of Susanna Woodward, on the 18th October 1814, whereby she became pregnant; and upon which charge the said James Harris was tried and acquitted before Sir Robert Graham Knight; when the said Robert Woodward was sentenced to two years imprisonment and his said two daughters to one years imprisonment each...'" "The petitioner who is 62 considers to constitute a degree of punishment beyond what was in the contemplation of the judge who passed sentence on him." See also QSR1818/503 & 506.
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