you can get straight to the evidence post-trial on the Digital Panopticon website from the first page of the OBO. If anyone would like to follow the evidence themselves then check it out! https://t.co/G6Y09PYgL1
(1) The meaning of 'death recorded' is not ambiguous. For more information see Simon Devereaux, 'Execution and Pardon at the Old Bailey
1730-1837', American Journal of Legal History, 57 (2017), footnote 14. 'A statute of 1823 (4 Geo IV c48) empowered trial judges on the
(3) London until fourteen years later, by the samestatute which abolished the Recorder’s Report (1 Vict c77).'
While the practice was not legally extended to London until 1837 (still well before the case Wolf cites)
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Tattoos Hackathon, 16 April 2019 /post/2019/05/21/tattoos-hackathon-16-april-2019/ Introduction Designs: word correlations (selected words) Designs: word correlations Subjects: correlation plot Designs: comparing word use by punishment Introduction For the project’s data h…
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@Prison_Voices@nma Hmm. It might be that Mary was such an early transportee that very few records survived for her. She was tried in Devonshire so won't have many records in our database. Have you checked the early convic indexes for NSW? Trove?