Rob Dickinson posted a Gaol Delivery message a couple of weeks back. “The Chelmsford Chronicle” for 15th March 1797 reported; At our assizes Wm Presnell and Simon Moulds for stealing a cow calf from Eliz, Hicks received sentence of death but was reprieved before Baron Hotham left the town. Supposed Life or 15 year transportation (not said) The Chelmsford Chronicle for March 16th 1798 reports; “at our Assizes, which ended on Friday last (9th) …………………Sam.James the Younger , for stealing a £10 bank note and six shillings out of a bureau………. Death recorded.” He was not left for execution by the Judge (Baron Hotham?)” So the likelihood was that they were transported, either to Van Diemens Land, to other parts of Australia, or to Bermuda Fred Feather, Editor of the Essex Family Historian