Gaol Calendar, Lent Assizes, At Maidstone, Monday the 11th March, 1799. Samuel Chambers, Esq. Sheriff.
Maidstone, Kent: J. Blake, at the King's Arms Office, 1799. First printing. Ephemera. A list of 49 prisoners sentenced at Maidstone Kent, spelled "Lent" in the title. Six prisoners were sentenced to transportation for 7 years; Joseph Pinniter, Richard Reynolds, William Howe, Thomas Maloy, Elizabeth Brown & Robert Marshall.
William Howe, Thomas Maloy and Robert Marshall were amongst 272 convicts transported on the Perseus and Coromandel, sailed Jan 1802, arrived 14th August, 1802 at New South Wales. Both Howe and Maloy were tried in 1798, yet they were not transported until 1802, spending the interim in prison or on a prison hulk. Elizabeth Brown (alias Sarah Brown) was transported on the Speedy, a ship loaded with female convicts, in October 1799. We were unable to locate records for Joseph Pinniter and Richard Reynolds. (Source convict records australia dot com).
Along with the charge, each entry lists the prisoner's age, the person who committed them, and the date of arrest. For a range of crimes including theft, murder, counterfeiting and rape, sentences included imprisonment, usually of 6 or 12 months, and death, although most of the death sentences were reprieved. Not in the English Short-Title Catalogue. No copies listed on OCLC or Library Hub. The SLNSW holds one for March 11th, 1776, but this issue not recorded there.
4pp, 16-1/4" x 10", print docket to verso. Horizontal and vertical fold lines, light soiling and edgewear, light foxing in a few places, portion of lower left margin excised, brief annotation on one of the prisoners. Very good overall. Item #27920
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