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GEORGE III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Elector of Hanover (1760-1820). Document signed ('George R' at head), ORDERING THE TRANSPORTATION OF A HIGHWAYMAN TO NEW SOUTH WALES, addressed to Sir John William Rose, Recorder of London, and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, St James's Palace, 1 January 1793, countersigned by Henry Dundas (later 1st Viscount Melville) as Home Secretary, 2 pages, folio, on a bifolium, paper seal (minor tears and losses to folds, slight offsetting of ink behind seal).
The death sentence passed on Thomas Radley for highway robbery is commuted to transportation 'for and during the Term of his Natural Life to the Eastern Coast of New South Wales or some one or other of the Islands adjacent'. Radley was tried at the Old Bailey, which indicates he was a highwayman on one of their traditional haunts, the heaths surrounding 18th-century London. Such was the threat posed by highwaymen at the period that it would have been quite unusual for the death sentence not to have been carried out. Thomas Radley was shipped on board the Surprise in February 1794.
The death sentence passed on Thomas Radley for highway robbery is commuted to transportation 'for and during the Term of his Natural Life to the Eastern Coast of New South Wales or some one or other of the Islands adjacent'. Radley was tried at the Old Bailey, which indicates he was a highwayman on one of their traditional haunts, the heaths surrounding 18th-century London. Such was the threat posed by highwaymen at the period that it would have been quite unusual for the death sentence not to have been carried out. Thomas Radley was shipped on board the Surprise in February 1794.
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