Modestly adventurous, while also endeavouring to look both ways when crossing the road.
[T]ransportation overseas, in use from 1717 onwards, remained a major alternative option for British law enforcers. Yet exiling convicts from friends, families and familiar lives as a penalty for minor crimes seemed equally disproportionate. Moreover, this policy too was arbitrary in its implementation. Judicial discretion produced major regional variations in trial outcomes. After their conviction, too many prisoners then died in the insanitary ships - known as the ' hulks '- where they were kept while awa
That said, the policy of criminal transportation, initially to the North American colonies (before 1776) and then to Australia, continued for a considerable time. Most transportees were adult males from south-east England; but some women were sent too. One was Hannah Rosse, a Londoner described as 'a sort of a dumb [sic], who was speech-impeded or (possibly) shamming. In 1745 she was sentenced to transportation for a second offence of larceny (non-violent theft of goods worth over 12 pence). Rosse's disabil