377. MARY BURGESS proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 3745. was indicted for returning from transportation, and being found at large before the expiration of the time for which she was transported, against the statute .

(The record of the conviction produced and read by Thomas Shelton < no role > , Esq. clerk of arraigns.)

JOHN OWEN < no role > sworn.

I know the prisoner, I was present when she was tried in October, 1787, for stealing goods of Mr. Jackson, and was capitally convicted; in June, 1789, she received the King's pardon, on condition of being transported for seven years; I delivered her on board the Lady Juliana; she escaped soon after from the ship in Long Reach.

ROBERT DAWSON < no role > sworn.

I apprehended the prisoner in Billings-court, Petticoat-lane, on the 9th of August last; I found her in bed, in consequence of an information; she appearedunwell; Joseph Bear < no role > was in company with me, Joseph Bear < no role > said that the woman sold old clothes, and behaved exceedingly well.

GUILTY , Death .

Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.