Petition from the Inhabitants of Headley and Bramshott to
The Right Honorable the Earl of Liverpool

			John Tuckey was under sentence of death for a crime committed in Headley and applied for clemency. The worthy inhabitants of Headley, who included amongst their number  John Fullick, petitioned that: Your Petitioners live amidst Murder, Thieves and Incendiaries who for many years have been committing every species of depredations....William Stilwell was murdered in his house in the day time and the murderers are not yet discovered.'....they continued: - That John Tuckey is under sentence of death for setting fire to and burning the Barns, Outhouses, Horses etc of Daniel Knight.... That the said John Tuckey was before convicted of a burglary on the premises of Charles Lee of Headley, sentenced to imprisonment for 3 months which he suffers. That scarcely an assize or a session has passed for many years either in the County of Southampton or the adjoining County of Surrey without some one of the parties either of the Parish of Bramshott or Headley being araigned for some offence against the laws....We your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the said John Tuckey may not be liberated and that the said sentence on the said John Tuckey may never return to the Parish of Headley again   Signed at Headley August 4th 1822
	With many thanks to Robert Dickie, a descendent of John Tuckey, for the scanned copy of the petition

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