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Newpaper listing the Lent Assizes punishments

Findspot: 
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Period: 
Date: 
1843
Material: 
Paper

Courts known as assizes met every 3 months to preside over the most serious local criminal cases. The Cambridge Lent Assizes of 1843 include the sorry tale of 13-year-old Thomas Bradley from Burwell, Cambridgeshire who was sentenced to 15 years transportation to Port Phillip, Australia for setting fire to stacks of corn and straw.

Collection information

Collection: 
Museum of Cambridge
Accession No: 
CAMFK:146.61

Exhibition details

Catalogue number: 
77

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