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12th April 1775 - 1st November 1777

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Image 109 of 24817th October 1777


Middlesex Prisoners upon Orders.

Executed.

1 Joseph Harris< no role > ,

Respited.

2 James Lucas< no role > ,}
Attainted last session of an highway robbery, and received judgment
of death.

Executed.

3 William Dodd< no role > , doctor of laws , attainted in February session of felony and forgery,
and judgment respited for the opinion of the judges; which opinion being declared
at the last session, he thereupon received judgment of death.

4 John Bangey< no role > ,
5 Francis Hall< no role > ,}
Convicted last session of grand larceny; ordered to be kept to hard
labour for the term of 3 years in raising sand, soil and gravel from,
and cleansing the river Thames , Etc.

6 Thomas Cox< no role > , otherwise Smith< no role > , acquitted last session of felony; but it appearing to the
Court that he had been formerly attainted of forgery in the county of Wilts , and
had received his Majesty's mercy on condition of transportation for 14 years, and
had been accordingly ordered to be transported for the term of 14 years to some of
his Majesty's colonies and plantations in America.Is referred to his former sentence.

Executed.

7 David Sheffield< no role > ,

Executed.

8 William Sheffield< no role > ,}
Attainted in April session of felony and burglary, and received
judgment of death. but having broke gaol and escaped on the
12th day of May last, were afterwards, on the 17th day of the same month, retaken.

Executed.

9 Benjamin Carraul< no role > , attainted in April session of felony, and received judgment of death.

10 Job Filkin< no role > ,
11 Pierce Donnovan< no role > ,
12 Thomas Baldwin< no role > ,
13 Mary Thomas< no role > ,}
Attainted in April of several felonies, burglaries and forgery, and
received judgment of death; but being respited, remain, Etc.

14 Daniel Denny< no role > , attainted in February session of forgery, but respited until the twenty-
third day of May; hath received another respite until further signification of his
Majesty' s pleasure.

15 John Hunt< no role > , formerly attainted of felony, and received judgment of death; but be-
ing respited, ordered to remain.

16 Elizabeth Parker< no role > , formerly attainted of high treason, and received judgment of
death; but being respited, ordered to remain.

17 George Chambers< no role > ,
18 William Catherall< no role > ,}
Referred to their former sentences to be kept to hard labour; the
said George Chambers< no role > for the term of 3 years, and the said
William Catherall< no role > for the term of 7 years, in raising sand, soil and gravel, Etc. on
the river Thames .

19 Thomas Coyle< no role > , convicted in April session of feloniously killing and slaying Mary< no role > his
wife , was branded, and ordered to be imprisoned one year.

A debtor .

20 Elizabeth West< no role > , convicted in February session of grand larceny; but it appearing to
the Court that she was with quick child, her judgment was respited, 1s since
delivered in childbed.

21 Lawrence Petit< no role > , convicted in February session of grand larceny, was branded in the
hand, and ordered to be imprisoned 6 kalendar months.

22 Ebenezer Smith Platt< no role > , committed Jan. 23, 1777, by W. Addington, Esq; charged,
on oath of Richard Scriven< no role > and Samuel Burnett< no role > , with high treason at Savannah in
the colony of Georgia in North-America ; ordered to remain on his commitment.
Was, on the 12th day of May, taken by habeas corpus into his Majesty's court of
King's-Bench, and remanded.

23 Thomas Floyd< no role > , referred to his former sentence of transportation.

24 Ann Seabright< no role > , otherwise Forbes< no role > , convicted in September session of grand larceny, was
branded in the hand, and ordered to be imprisoned for the space of one year.




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