Charles Everitt

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 25th May 2025

1835 - New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters. Tasmania No; 9 Assigned; Public Works DIED; 4 May 1838

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Maureen Withey on 13th March 2023

Colonial Secretary's Office, March 18, 1829. THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR has been pleased to grant the undermentioned Indulgences:— …. Police District, Norfolk Plains, The Ticket of Leave held by Charles Everitt or Everard, Calcutta, has been withdrawn for gross misconduct. By His Excellency's Command, J. BURNETT. Hobart Town Gazette, 21 March 1829.

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Maureen Withey on 13th March 2023

Tasmanian Records. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON22-1-1_0286 Per Calcutta 1804. Charles Everitt or Everard, tried London Jail Delivery, 28 Oct 1801. Life. T.E. cancelled. ----------------------------------------------------- Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 13 March 2023), October 1801, trial of CHARLES EVERITT , alias EVERARD JAMES EVERITT , alias EVERARD (t18011028-37). CHARLES EVERITT, JAMES EVERITT, Theft > burglary, 28th October 1801. 796. CHARLES EVERITT , alias EVERARD , and JAMES EVERITT , alias EVERARD , were indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of James Maze , about the hour of one in the night, of the 15th of August , and burglariously stealing nine seven-shilling pieces, twelve shillings, a bank-note, value 50l. another bank-note, value 30l. another bank-note, value 20l. another bank-note, value 10l. three other banknotes, each of the value of 5l. three other banknotes, each of the value of 2l. twelve other banknotes, each of the value of 1l. a bill of exchange, value 40l. another bill of exchange, value 6l. 11s. another bill of exchange, value 14l. 14s. and an order for the payment of money, value 92l. 13s. the property of the said James.(The case was opened by Mr. Knowlys). JAMES MAZE sworn. - Examined by Mr. Knowlys. My dwelling-house is in Cousin's-lane, Dowgate Iron-wharf, in the parish of Allhallows the Great . Q. Does your accompting-house look upon the water? - A. Not directly upon the river, but upon the dock at the back of it. Q. You are the only proprietor of that dwelling-house? - A. I am; I was in the country at the time of the robbery; my clerk discovered it. JOHN DUNMAN sworn. - Examined by Mr. Knowlys. Q. Were you clerk to Mr. Maze on Saturday, the 15th of August? - A. I was; I was the last person in the accompting-house that night; I locked my own desk, and put the key in my pocket, about nine o'clock. Q. Is the accompting-house a part of the dwelling-house? - A. Yes. Q. Can you tell us what notes, bills, and money, you left in the accompting-house? - A. Nine seven-shilling pieces, a bank-note of fifty pounds, a bank-note of thirty pounds, another of twenty pounds. Q. What was the number of the bank-note of fifty pounds? - A.9307, dated the 27th of July, 1801; the twenty-pound was number 4172, dated the 27th of July, 1801. Q. What other bank-note did you lock up? - A. A bank-note of ten pounds, three bank-notes of five pounds, three bank-notes of two pounds, and ten or twelve of one pound. Q. Had either the bank-notes the name of"Hume, 14s. 8d." endorsed upon it? - A. Yes, a one pound note; I received five from Mr. Moore. Q. Do you know whether you received that from Mr. Moore or not? - A. I cannot say. Q. Did you secure in your desk any bills of exchange? - A. Yes, five; three of them were taken away; one for 40l. another for 61. 11s. and another for 14l. 14s. drawn by William and George North, of Brecon, in Wales, on John North, Caroline-street, Bedford-square. Q. Did you secure any thing else? - A. No, nothing else was taken away. Q. Did you sleep in the house that night? - A. I slept in the house adjoining to it; I rent a part of the house of Mr. Maze. Q. What fastening is there to the windows? - A. Brass fastenings. Q. Were you the last in the house on the Saturday evening? - A. Yes. Q. Was it dark when you left the house? - A. It was too dark to see to do any thing. Q. Was there day-light enough to discern the features of a man? - A. Yes, there was; on the Sunday morning I was alarmed by the warehouseman; I went to the accompting-house, and found the slaps of the desks all thrown up; the locks had been forced by violence. Q. How did you find the window of the accompting-house? - A. A square of glass in the window that looks over the dock had been broke, the fastenings undone, and the fash thrown down. Q. Were the desks fixed to the wall, or were they loose? - A. They were fixed desks, one end fixed to the wall. Q. Had the entry been made by means of getting down the upper sash, and getting in there? - A. Yes. Q. Had you made observation enough to say whether that window was whole the night before? - A. It was. Q. You can speak to that with certainly? - A. Yes, I can. Q. Was you desk one of those that had been forced open? - A. Yes; the papers in the desk were tumbled all over. Q. They were not in the state in which you left them over night? - A. No. Q. The bank-notes and the bills that you have mentioned were missing in the morning? - A. Yes. Q. How soon after did you apprehend any of the parties? - A. On the Tuesday morning following Lovell was apprehended. Q. When were the two prisoners apprehended? - A.Monday, the 19th of October. Q. What was Lovell, the accomplice? - A.Turncock to the London-Bridge water-works. Q. Had he ever been at the accompting-house? - A. Yes, he had. Q. How could that window have been got at? - A. Only by a ladder. Q. Were there any harges lying under the accompting-house in the dock? - A. There was one barge right under the window. Q. Was it in such a situation, that a ladder, placed in the barge, might reach to that window? - A. Yes. Q. Where were the prisoners apprehended? - A. At the Swan and Pike, Enfield-Wash; it is called the Lock-house; it is kept by one Cole. Q. Have you seen the fifty-pound bank-note since? - A. Yes. Q. Have you seen the bill for fourteen guineas? - A. No. Q. Did any thing pass when the prisoners wereapprehended? - A. No, except when the handcuffs were produced at the Rose and Crown, Enfield-Highway, where we took them, one of them advised the other not to say any thing; I cannot say which of them it was.(Mr. Maze produced the fifty-pound note.) Q.(To the Witness.) Have you any remembrance of that note? - A. No, I have not; I received it from the clerk of Messrs. Willis, Wood, and Company. Q. Who is that person? - A. I cannot say. ALEXANDER DRUMMOND sworn. - I keep a lottery-office in Fleet-street, the corner of the Bolt and Tun. Q. Have you seen a person of the name of Joel Lovell ? - A. Yes, he came to my office on Monday, the 17th of August; there were two or three persons apparently with him, outside the window, but only one came into the office with him, that was the prisoner, Charles Everitt; they bought three shares, for which they paid me by a twenty-pound bank-note. Q. What was the amount of their purchase of you? - A. Six pounds, four shillings; I gave them in change two five-pound bank-notes, and two-pound bank, and the rest in money. Q. Can you tell us the numbers of the five-pound bank-notes? - A. One of them was No. 1679, dated the 11th of July, in the present year. Q. To whom did you pass the twenty-pound note that you received in purchase of these tickets? - A. Snow and Denne, the bankers, in the Strand; I sent it to them for change, that I might get time to mark the notes that I gave to them in change. Q. To whom did you give the change? - A. Lovell took the note from me, and wrote upon the back of it John Williams , No. 12, Bow-lane; the change was bought back while Lovell and Charles Everitt remained in the shop. Q. What time of the day was this? - A.Between eleven and twelve, as near as I can guess. Q. How long were they in your office? - A. Very near a quarter of an hour. JAMES NOWELL sworn. - Examined by Mr. Knowlys. I am clerk in the house of Snow and Denne. Q.Have you your book in which there is an entry of a bank-note of twenty-pounds? - A. It is in this book, (produces the book,) in the handwriting of one of our clerks; it is not my writing. Mr. Knowlys. You must go for that clerk. DAVID JONES sworn. - I am turncock to the London-Bridge water-works; I live at No. 26, Bread-street-hill. Q. Do you know Joel Lovell ? - A. Yes, he is a supernumerary turncock; on Monday, the 17th of August, I received a five-pound note from him.(Produces it.) Mr. Drummond. This is one of the five-pound notes that I gave to Lovell. Q. Was that five-pound note one of the notes that you received from Denne's? - A. No, that is a note that I had by me, which I marked while I sent for change. JOHN CARROLL sworn. - Examined by Mr. Knowlys. My son keeps a lottery-office, in Oxford-street; I was there when Robert Spratt , a porter, came for some shares that had been purchased. Q. Were you present when the persons who purchased the shares came to the office? - A. I was there when one man came. Q. Look at the prisoners? - A. I do not think either of them is the man; the porter came with a fourteen-guinea bill, which was not indorsed; I took it down with the change and the porter to the man who had purchased the shares. Q. Have you a bill? - A. Yes, (produces it;) I found the man waiting at a public-house at Charing-cross. Q. When was it? - A. I cannot say. Q. How long before you went to the Mansion-House? - A. I cannot tell, for I did not take any notice of it. Q. What was the name indorsed upon it? - A. James Watts. Q. Do you know who that person was? - A. It was neither of the prisoners; I have looked at them several times; I cannot recollect that either of them are the men. Q. Are you certain it was not either of the prisoners? - A. No, I cannot say either way, but I should rather think it was not. Q. Did Spratt see the indorsement made? - A. No. Q. Was he within fight of the person who made the indorsement? - A. He was close by me. ROBERT SPRATT sworn. - Q. Did you see this indorsement made? - A. I was at the elbow of the person who indorsed the bill. Q. Look at the prisoners, and tell me whether either of them was the man who made that indorsement? - A. I cannot be certain. AQUILA COLE sworn. - Examined by Mr. Knowlys. Q. Do you keep the Swan and Pike at Enfield Marsh? - A. I do. Q. Do you know the two prisoners at the bar? - A. Yes. Q. How long had they lodged at your house before they were taken up? - A. About five or six weeks. Q. When were they apprehended? - A. On Monday, the 19th of October. Q.Whilst they were there, was there any transaction respecting a fifty-pound bank-note? - A. Yes. Q. How long had they lodged at your house before they made any application to you about afifty pound Bank-note? - A. About a month, they were both in the parlour; James Everitt gave me a fifty pound note, and asked me to take what they owed me, and give him change for that note; I told him I could not, I was going to make a payment, and I would get change for it there; we took it to Mr. Naylor's, of Ponder's End. Q. Was that the only fifty pound note you had? - A. Yes; Mr. Naylor changed it for me; I returned them forty pounds - A twenty, and two tens. Q. The same notes that you received from Mr. Naylor, did you give to the prisoners? - A. Yes. WILLIAM-BAKER NAYLOR sworn. - Examined by Mr. Knowlys. Q. In what business are you? - A. In the wine trade. Q. Do you know the last witness who keeps the Swan and Pike at Enfield Marsh? - A. I do; I think it was the 5th of October I gave him change for a fifty pound note; I paid it to Gordon in Goswell-street. (Mr. Maze produced the note.) Mr. Naylor. This is the Bank-note I received from the last witness; I put Mr. Cole's name upon it immediately upon my receiving it, and the date, October 5th. Q. Have you the least doubt that that is the fifty pound note you received from Cole? - A. None. Q.(To Dunman.) Look at that fifty pound note? - A. I do not know it myself; I received it from a person in the house of Willis and Company. Q. Had you any other fifty pound note? - A. No. SAMUEL TOMKINS sworn. - Examined by Mr. Knowlys. Q. You are a clerk in the banking-house of Willis and Wood? - A. I am a partner in the house. Q. Do you know any thing of a fifty pound note being paid to Mr. Maze's clerk? - A. I do (refers to his book) on the 15th of August last, No. 9307, dated 27th of July, 1801. RICHARD MORLEY sworn. - Examined by Mr. Knowlys. I am clerk to Mr. Drummond: On Monday, the 17th of August, I took a twenty pound note from Mr. Drummond to get change at Snow and Denne's; I gave change for it in finall notes. HENRY GUBBINS sworn. - Examined by Mr. Knowlys. I am clerk to Messrs. Snow and Company. Q. Did you receive a note from Mr. Drummond of twenty pounds on the 17th of August? - A. I received a twenty pound note from Mr. Morley, his clerk, on that day. Q.Favour us with the number and date? - A. I did not take down the date; I took down the number only, No. 4172. Q. Did you observe any memorandum or mark upon that Bank-note? - A. No, I did not. JOHN HARRIS sworn. - Examined by Mr. Knowlys. I was at work upon the dunghill opposite Mr. Maze's till dusk on Saturday night that the house was broke open. Q. What is there between this dunghill and the accompting-house? - A. There is a little dock, just room for a barge to go up. Q. Do you know Joel Lovell ? - A. Yes. Q. Did you see him while you were at work that day upon the dunghill? - A. Not that day; I saw the two prisoners there about sun-set walking about, looking at the dock, and at the water-side; I did not observe them do any thing. Q. How long did they quit the place before you quitted it? - A. A good while; there was a ladder that I had at work, which I locked up with the chain round one of the rounds of the ladder; the next morning, about nine o'clock, the ladder had been taken away, and set down into the barge. Q. How near was the barge to the window of Mr. Maze's accompting-house? - A. Some part of the barge right under it. Q. If you were in the barge, would that ladder enable you to reach that accompting-house window? - A. Yes; the step of the ladder round which the chain went, had been cut through, to get it free from the lock. Prisoner, James Everitt. Q. Was the ladder long enough to reach that window? - A. When the water was high, it was. Q. How was the water that night? - A. I cannot say. JOEL LOVELL sworn. - Examined by Mr. Knowlys. I am an extra turncock to the London-bridge water-works. Q. Do you know the accompting-house of Mr. Maze? - A. Yes. Q. Have you ever been in that accompting-house before it was robbed? - A. Yes, on the 14th of August. Q. When was the accompting-house robbed? - A. On Saturday the 15th, between one and two in the night. Q. Who were the persons concerned in that robbery? - A. Charles Everitt and James Everitt. Q. Who else was concerned in it? - A. Nobody. Q. How came you to know about it? - A. And myself. Q.Tell us how you all three went about it? - A. We met about eleven o'clock at night at Queenhithe; we went from Queenhithe to Dowgatedock-hill, and there was a ladder. Q.Loose or fastened? - A.Fastened. Q. What was done with the ladder? - A. One of the rounds of the ladder was cut off, because it was chained. Q. Who cut it off? - A. One of the prisoners, I cannot say which. Q. When you had got the ladder, what was done with it? - A. It was put into the barge lyingin the dock; one of the two prisoners got into the barge, and then I left them for some time. Q. Where was Mr. Maze's premises, with respect to the barge? - A. I believe the barge was under the window of Mr. Maze's premises. Q. What were you to do while they were in the barge? - A. I was to look out to see that nobody was coming; when I returned back again, I could not see or hear them, and I went away again. Q. Did you see where the ladder was? - A. No, it was so dark, I could not; then I went round by Thames-street, and came down the back way to Dowgate to look for them; I thought they had gone away by that time; when I returned back again the second time, I found them upon the Dock-hill; they said they had got some money, and then we agreed to go to Darkhouse-lane. Q. Did they tell you where they had got the money from then? - A. No, they did not. Q. How long do you think it was after they had put the ladder down into the barge, before they got back upon the hill? - A. It might take up about half an hour. Q. You say, you met at eleven o'clock; for what purpose did you meet? - A. With intention to get into Mr. Maze's accompting-house. Q. Did you hear any thing while you were upon the watch? - A. I heard a window crack. Q. Where was the barge and the ladder at that time? - A. In the dock. Q. Where were the prisoners? - A. I could not see them, it was so dark. Q. Did the noise come from the dock? - A. Yes, as I thought. Q. Where did Mr. Maze's accompting-house window look into? - A.Into the dock. Q. Where did you go after that? - A. To Darkhouse-lane. Q. What was done there? - A.What money they had, was divided. Q. What money they had got, you could not know, but from what they told you? - A. No. Q. How much did they give you for your share? - A. Twelve pounds; and I was to have the rest of my share when the twenty pound note was changed. Q. Did you afterwards change the twenty pound note? - A. Yes, at Mr. Drummond's, in Fleet-street, the following Monday, the 17th of August; Charles Everitt went with me. Q. About what time in the day, as near as you can guess? - A. Between twelve and one, as near as I can guess; we bought two sixteenths and a quarter of the present English lottery that is to be drawn; I gave the twenty pound note to get change; Charles Everitt gave it to me; and I paid it. Q. Did Charles Everitt give it you in the shop, or before? - A. I believe he gave it to me before. Q. Did you receive any change out of the twenty pound note from Mr. Drummond? - A. Yes. Q. Do you know how much you received? - A. I do not know rightly. Q. Do you know any part of the change that you received? - A. Yes; I received two five-pound notes, a one, and a two-pound note, I think, and the rest in cash; I am not quite certain. Q. Did you afterwards part with either of these five-pound notes to any other person? - A. I changed a five-pound note with David Jones , but I cannot say whether that was one of the notes that came from Mr. Drummond's, or not. Q. Had you any other five-pound notes about you, besides those you received from Mr. Drummond? - A. Yes, I had. Q. When did you change that five pound with Jones? - A.Between one and two, on the Monday. Q. The same day that you bought this share at Mr. Drummond's? - A. The same day. Q. Do you know what became of the shares of the lottery tickets? - A. Yes; one sixteenth Charles Everitt had, and I had the others; I had a quarter, and a sixteenth. Q. Do you know where the Everitts went to, after you had shared the money between you? - A. No; I was taken up the next morning. Charles Everitt 's defence. On Monday morning I met Lovett at Queenhithe; he said he was going to buy some shares in the lottery; he asked me to go with him, I went with him to Mr. Drummond's; he was going to buy a quarter and a sixteenth; I told him, if he would buy a quarter, and two sixteenths, I would take one of them, and pay him for it in the afternoon; then we came back again, and I left him at the top of Bull-whars-lane, and agreed to meet him in Bishopsgate-street at three o'clock; he took me up a passage, and told me he had picked a gentleman's pocket of a fifty pound note, and some bills of exchange; there was to be a fight upon Wirtibledon-common, and I lent him four pounds near a twelvemonth ago, and he had not the opportunity of paying me; he gave me the fifty pound note, and told me to get it changed for him, and I was to pay myself the four pounds that he owed, and he was to give me six pounds more for getting it changed; I was to have ten pounds out of the fifty pounds; I thought I should not have got my money, unless I took the fifty pound note to get it changed, and I kept the whole of it; Lovell is swearing our lives away to save himself. James Everitt 's defence. I know nothing at all about it; my brother handed me a note to give to Mr. Cole to get change for him. Charles Everitt, GUILTY , Death , aged 20. James Everitt, GUILTY , Death , aged 21. London Jury, before Mr. Recorder.