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				<div style="font-family:serif;"><i>Old Bailey Proceedings Online</i> (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 01 April 2023), September 1783, trial of                      RICHARD                      PARTRIDGE                                                                               (t17830910-19).<hr/><h2>RICHARD PARTRIDGE, Miscellaneous &gt; returning from transportation, 10th September 1783. </h2>                                                                                                   <p>614.                                                       RICHARD                      PARTRIDGE                                                                                                          was indicted for                                                          returning from transportation, and being found at large, on the 1st of September                      last, without any lawful cause            .</p>               <p>(The Record read as before.)</p>               <p>                                                                  JOHN                   OWEN                                                                                        sworn.</p>               <p>I recollect the prisoner being here before, in April, 1783.</p>               <p>He was then convicted in this Court, under the Record that has just been read? - Yes.</p>               <p>Is he the same man? - Yes.</p>               <p>                                                ROBERT                   CLARKE                                                                                        sworn.</p>               <p>I apprehended the prisoner at Tunbridge.</p>               <p>Did he make any resistance? - No.</p>               <p>He surrendered himself very peaceably and quietly? - Very peaceably.</p>               <p>                                                THOMAS                   BRADBURY                                                                                        sworn.</p>               <p>I remember this man.</p>               <p>What was his behaviour? - His behaviour was well enough, as far as I saw.</p>               <p>He was not remarkably active, was he? - Not as I know.</p>               <p>Prisoner. I leave myself to the mercy of the Court.</p>               <p>                                                      GUILTY                                                                                        Death            .</p>               <p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                  [Pardon on condition of Transportation. See summary.]                                                                                          </p>            </div>
				
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