620. ANDREW DICKSON proceedingsdefend was indicted for returning from transportation, and being found at large on the 1st of September last, without any lawful cause .

(The Record read as before.)

JOHN OWEN < no role > sworn.

I recollect the prisoner, he was the person that was transported in April sessions last.

RICHARD TAYLOR < no role > sworn.

I apprehended the prisoner, I am an Innkeeper, I took him to the George, at Lamrey's, in the parish of Hawksworth, about eight miles from the Rye-road.

Did the prisoner make any resistance? - He did not, there were three of them.

Were the other two escaped convicts? - Yes.

Did they make any resistance? - None at all, they behaved as well as could be expected, from men in their unhappy situation, and I am very sorry for them.

THOMAS BRADURY < no role > sworn.

Was the prisoner one of those convicts that you had to transport in the Swift? - He was.

Do you recollect whether he was particularly active in this business? - No, my Lord, I do not.

You do not recollect his offering any particular violence? - No.

GUILTY Death .

[Pardon on condition of Transportation. See summary.]