Re: Court records: Death R


"John Prentice" <johnp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here's a funny one. I was looking at court records for one of my
more unusual family surnames (Petherbridge), and I find that one of
them, the hapless John of the ilk, was sentenced to death in the
Devon 1824 Summer Assizes for horse stealing. I noticed a quirk in
the court records when I looked up and down the page. Clearly there
was a bit of a Draconian judge sitting at the Assizes, as many of
the other unfortunates on the page also received the death penalty.
On each one, there was a subscript "R" following the word "Death".

Here's an example:
http://www.genealogy-britain.org.uk/images/DeathR.png

What does the "R" denote? I haven't been able to find an explanation
so far. I'm sure it's obvious and I missed it as usual!

John
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