> From Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, May 1,1802; Issue 2557.  > > On Thursday last a free pardon was received at our Castle Gaol for MARY > RICE , who was convicted at the Summer Assizes, 1799, of receiving > stolen goods, and sentenced to be transported for fourteen years. They were often much tougher on receivers of stolen goods than on the actual thieves, possibly on the principle that people would not steal if they could not find a place to turn the goods to cash. Notice that Mary has already spent a couple of years awaiting transportation, presumably in the Huks. She won't have enmerged from that in a very healthy condition. EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society