| Description | Letter from R Orridge gaoler at Cambridge Castle to the keeper of the House of Correction at Northallerton relating to John Tippet now in custody at Northallerton. He was committed to prison at Cambridge Castle on 31 December 1808 for stealing a pair of sheets and was convicted at the Sessions on 13 January, but "on his telling a long deplorable story which you will find he is not at a loss to do", he was allowed to go into the marine service |