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A Debauched Trail Ends with Death and Transportation Sentences
Old court reports recount a Cornwall affair where a man faced a long criminal conversation with his wife. The Kingston affizes sentenced eight people to death or transportation, including men for highway robbery, murder, and perjury, with others ferried for various felonies. Local crime, trials, and port reports fill the page along with shipping exports and European political updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornwall
Kingston
County of
Lurrey
Knightly Wood
James Hanckell
Ham
George Goswell
Rowland Rowley
Sarah Dimfdale
John Holmes
William Hopkins
St. George’s Fields
Richard’ Mann
William Courtney
Robert Purday
John Cocks
Cox
Jahan Brown
Bass Brown
Nancy
Sulivan
Bere Haven
Lispon
Ireland
Robert Pryor
Baldock
Hertford
Wara
Lime Kiln-Hill
Broadwater
Her
Richard Brocas
Newgate
Thomas Browne
John Ayton
Henry Waugh
Oporto
Flanders
Lisbon
Virginia
Maryland
West Indies
Cadiz
Rome
Trivelli
Jacobini
Gaillies
Guadagni
Oddi