| Reference Number | t17650417-3 |
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| Verdict | Guilty > pleaded guilty |
| Sentence | Transportation |
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216. Richard Swift was set to the bar, and the indictment read to him, on which he was tried and convicted in May Sessions last, and received sentence to be transported for the term of fourteen years ; he owned himself to be the person therein mentioned . He was remanded back to Newgate, in order to be sent abroad till the expiration of the said term . See No. 283. in last mayoralty.
Note. He was taken up at Coventry and tried for returning, but by some-mistake, either in the indictment or record, he was there Acquitted.