| Description | saying that, with one exception, he had caught all the men in the sheep stealing affair, and had sentenced the ring-leader, John Chadburn, paymaster, to 999 lashes of which he had had 800. Two other men had been obliged to commute their sentences to service abroad for life. [Marked 'C23' in red. See MS 3470/6/1/1102 above.] |