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Find Online Records of Benjamin Carver 1791 Crown appeals against sentence / Appeals, against verdict or sentence
London Lives
Records from a number of archives have been brought together and digitised on the London Lives website including Quarter Sessions records for City of London, Middlesex and Westminster.
4.1 Pre-1834 records and finding aids at The National Archives
As well as records of proceedings (see Section 3), The National Archives also holds the following:
lists of prisoners awaiting trial at the Old Bailey 1815-1849 in HO 16 – browse by reference in our catalogue
calendars and lists of prisoners awaiting trial at Newgate Gaol 1782-1853 in HO 77 – browse by reference in our catalogue
criminal registers 1791-1892, listing those charged with indictable offences at Middlesex Sessions, giving verdict and sentence – search by name at Ancestry.co.uk (the original records are in HO 26 and HO 27).
The National Archives library holds the following printed and published {calendars[1]} for records held at the London Metropolitan Archives:
Middlesex County Records edited by J C Jeaffreson (1886-1892), for Middlesex Quarter Sessions 1549-1688
County of Middlesex Calendar to the Sessions Records 1612-1616 by William le Hardy (1935-1937), for Middlesex Quarter Sessions
l various other unpublished typescript calendars of Middlesex Quarter Sessions for 1607-1612 and 1638-1751 (search in our library catalogue using the term 'Calendar to Middlesex Records')
"The Newgate Calendar subtitled The Malefactors' Bloody Register, was a popular work of improving literature in the 18th and 19th centuries. Along with the Bible and John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the Calendar was famously in the top three works most likely to be found in the average home."