The Galley Memento.

by GALLEY, Edmund - WHITE, F. Faulkner (illuminator).

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First edition

[Exeter: , 1879]. Exquisitely illuminated album commemorating the overturning of a miscarriage of justice Handsomely bound and illuminated presentation album, one of just two copies, presented to honour the work of solicitor and county clerk Ralph Sanders, one of two men instrumental in reversing the miscarriage of justice in the case of Edmund Galley, who became an international cause célèbre after being wrongfully convicted of murder and transported to Australia in 1836. On 28 July 1836 Edmund Galley (alias "Dick Turpin") was tried at the Exeter assizes for the murder of one Jonathan May, a wealthy farmer; Sanders was present at his trial. Convicted through mistaken identity, he was first sentenced to death, but a number of junior barristers convinced of Galley's innocence succeeded in commuting his sentence to life imprisonment. Galley spent two years incarcerated on the Ganymede, a floating prison hulk on the Thames, before being transported to Australia, sailing on 12 May 1839 as one of 240 convicts aboard the Parkfield, which docked in Port Jackson, New South Wales on 1 September. Galley served over forty years of labour, first as part of a chain gang assigned to work at Cooks River, then as a farm servant to Thomas Waugh. In 1846 he became a ticket-of-leave man - allowed to seek another master on the proviso that he remained within a certain district and reported regularly to the police - and chose to settle in the Southern Tablelands. He worked as a horse driver for W

• Year: 1879
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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