William Burnett sentenced to death.

[tempogold]

 Hello
I hope someone with better eyes than me might be able to  work out what is on the Criminal Record sheet for William Burnett in 1804. Record on Ancestry. He was born 1776 in Kent but is tried in London on 11/4/1804. Sentence is death but i can read he was Pardoned but not why.
Many Thanks.

[IgorStrav]

No note of the reason for the death penalty being commuted, but he was transported for life, and there is a note that this sentence had been carried out.

Cannot currently read the second line - perhaps someone else will have better eyes!

[jonw65]

Hello
I hope someone with better eyes than me might be able to  work out what is on the Criminal Record sheet for William Burnett in 1804. Record on Ancestry. He was born 1776 in Kent but is tried in London on 11/4/1804. Sentence is death but i can read he was Pardoned but not why.

Are you talking about William Barnett?
Why have you said Burnett?
Old Bailey website
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18040411-23-defend282&div=t18040411-23#highlight
11 April 1804
James Nixon and William Barnett were indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Thomas Hargrave , on the 21st of February , about the hour of two o'clock at night, and burglariously stealing....

Both sentenced to death
Is Willm Barnet on the Criminal Registers

The Digital Panopticon
William Barnett
Sentence respited 13th June 1804
https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpt18040411-23-defend282

[tempogold]

 Thanks to you both for clearing that up. Completed .

[cuffie81]

There are a couple of newspaper references to Nixon and Barnett, although they don't add much to what you already know.

Morning Post
23 Feb 1804
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Mansion House
Yesterday James Nixon and William Barnett (notorious offenders) were exammed? charged with burglariously breaking and entering the warehouses of the Ipswich Arms Inn, ____-street, Fenchurch-street. They were both fully? committed for trial.


Sun (London)
14 Jun 1804
Recorder's Report
Yesterday the Recorder made a Report to His Majesty of the following 18 prisoners under sentence of death in Newgate: - George Smith, Mary Anderson, George Donohow, James Heath, John Smith, alias Lacey, Richard Anderson, John Kemp, James Draper, Jeremiah Corneille, James Nixon, William Barnett, Robert Harris, William Gill, alias Matthews, Caroline Matthews, Elizabeth Fisher, Mary Ann Taylor, Edward King, and Louis Darney; when they were all respited during His Majesty's pleasure. - The cases of Robert Astlett, and fifteen other prisoners, were not reported.