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In today's society it rare to find parents whipping their children and it's not rare to see kids acting out of control. I believe in whipping your kids for punishment and not out of anger. One smack on a bare hind end will get their attention. I was whipped as a child and it corrected my mistakes. These court records from 1700's show criminals could be burnt in the hand, shipped out of the country or simply killed for their act. Government was smarter then as they didn't see fit to pay to feed, house and guard every criminal. Note there is no direct link of these cases to my family here in America. I was simply researching and found these records which happened in England I think.
James Blanchet, Theft > shoplifting, 4th July 1730.
Reference Number: t17300704-37
Offence: Theft > shoplifting Verdict: Guilty > theft under 1s Punishment: Transportation
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James Blanchet , of St. George in the East , was indicted for feloniously stealing 3 Handkerchiefs, in the Shop of Adam Walker , the 12th of June last. It appear'd by the Evidence, that the Handkerchiefs were lost from the Prosecutor's Shop-Window, and were found upon the Prisoner; the Fact being plainly proved, the Jury found him Guilty to the Value of 10d. The Trials being ended, the Court proceeded to give Judgment, as follows: None receiv'd Sentence of Death. Burnt in the Hand 4. John Ward , Richard Macey , and Isaac Emmery , Thomas Jeweller , former Convicts. Transportation 28. Mary Clark , Mary Cooper , Gamaliel Bishop , Francis Smith , Elizabeth Skegg , alias Scagg , F - S - , Margaret Brown , Jane Jones , alias Jenkins, Richard Ridgely , John Roff , John Priglove , Susannah Miller , John Burnham , Peter Gates , Alice Leader , James Blanchet , John Hawkswell , Robert Wheeler , John Collins , Edward Shaftoe , David Dickson , Jane Jenkins , Margaret Hobsor , Mary Smith , Susannah Collins , James Brennan , Andrew Maccoului , and Mary Thompson . To be Whip'd 7. Elizabeth Burton , Anne Pearse , Eleanor Howard , Susannah Miller , Mary Murrey , Esther Tims , Sarah Shakespear , alias Bird. Thomas Wood , was Fin'd five Marks, and order'd to suffer one Month's Imprisonment after Payment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ transportation punishmentTransportationThe first major innovation in eighteenth-century penal practice was the substantial expansion of the use of transportation. Although it was believed that transportation might lead to the reformation of the offender, the primary motivations behind this punishment were a belief in its deterrent effect, and a desire to simply remove hardened criminals from society.
Although many convicts were transported in the seventeenth century, it was done at their own expense or at the expense of merchants or shipowners. In the early eighteenth century transportation came to be seen as a way of creating an effective alternative to the death penalty, that avoided the apparent leniency of the other main options: benefit of clergy and whipping. In 1718 the first Transportation Act allowed the courts to sentence felons guilty of offences subject to benefit of clergy to seven years transportation to America. In 1720 a further statute authorized payments by the state to the merchants who contracted to take the convicts to America. The first Transportation Act also allowed those guilty of capital offences and pardoned by the King to be sentenced to transportation, and established returning from transportation as a capital offence. In 1776 transportation was halted by the outbreak of war with America. Although convicts continued to be sentenced to transportation, male convicts were confined to hard labour in hulks on the Thames, while women were imprisoned. Transportation resumed in 1787 with a new destination: Australia. This was seen as a more serious punishment than imprisonment, since it involved exile to a distant land. In the early nineteenth century, as part of the revisions of the criminal law, transportation for life was substituted as the maximum punishment for several offences which had previously been punishable by death. Opposition to transportation mounted in the 1830s, however, with complaints that it failed to deter crime, did not lead to the reformation of the convicts, and that conditions in the convict colonies were inhumane. The number of convicts sentenced to transportation began to decline in the 1840s. Transportation was theoretically abolished by the Penal Servitude Act of 1857, which substituted penal servitude for all transportation sentences. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Old Bailey Proceedings front matter, 10th May 1744.
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THE PROCEEDINGS ON THE King's Commissions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer,
and Goal Delivery FOR THE CITY of LONDON; And also the Goal Delivery for the
County of MIDDLESEX, Held at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bailey,
On THURSDAY the 10th, FRIDAY the 11th, and SATURDAY the 12th, of May. In the 17th Year of his MAJESTY'S Reign. BEING THE Fifth SESSIONS in the MAYORALTY OF THE Right Honble Sir Robert Westley , Knt. LORD-MAYOR of the CITY of LONDON. NUMBER V. LONDON: Printed, and sold by M. COOPER, at the Globe in Pater-noster Row. 1744. [Price Six-pence.] THE PROCEEDINGS ON THE King's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Goal Delivery held for the City of London, &c. BEFORE the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT WESTLEY , Knt. Lord-Mayor of the City of London, Mr. Justice BURNET, Mr. Baron CLARKE , Sir SIMON URLIN , Knt. Recorder, and others of His Majesty's Justices of Oyer and Terminer for the City of London, and Justices of Goal-Delivery of Newgate, holden for the said City, and County of Middlesex. London Jury. Smoult Pye *, * William Sparrow and Robert Walling were sworn on the London Jury the last day in the room of William Holland and Smoult Pye. Middlesex Jury. Charles Church, William Cosh +, + And Henry Hayman on the Middlesex Jury the second day in the room of William Cosh , who was indisposed. -----------------------------------------------------
WILLIAM BLANCHETT, Theft > stealing from master, 5th April 1832.
Reference Number: t18320405-26
Offence: Theft > stealing from master Verdict: Guilty Punishment: Transportation
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820. WILLIAM BLANCHETT was indicted for stealing, on the 20th of February , 47 ounces and 6 penny-weights of silver, value 11l., the goods of Jonathan Haynes , his master . JONATHAN HAYNES. I am a silversmith , and live in Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell - the prisoner was in my employ; I had been robbed to a considerable amount. On the 20th of February my foreman gave me information - I went into the shop to the prisoner, and desired him to give me up my silver, or I should send for an officer; he hesitated a little time; I again desired him to give it up - he then turned round, and gave me some silver cuttings, twisted up in a piece of paper, from the back of a press where he was working; there was I oz. and 4 dwts.; I said to him, "A fortnight ago you robbed me of 50 ozs.;" he asked me if I would forgive him, and admitted that he took 39 ozs. of it - I said, "It will be better for you to state all you know."
Cross-examined by MR. BARRY. Q. How long had he lived with you? A. About twelve months - he was a stamper; he had been employed making tea-pot handles, and he brought back some deficient in weight - the press is mine, but he worked there; cuttings are never placed behind it. THOMAS HOUGH . I am apprentice to Mr. Haynes. I went with the officer to the prisoner's lodging, and found 7 ozs. of silver, in a box. WILLIAM BROWN EDWARDS. I am an officer. I went to the prisoner's lodging, and found some silver there - this is what was found by Mr. Haynes. MR. HAYNES. This is my property - it is cuttings, and could not have been there for any honest purpose; it should have been given back to te foreman. Cross-examined. Q. Is the foreman here? A. No; the articles are cut out in his shop, and the cuttings should have been left there - there could be no silver on my premises but my own. GUILTY . Aged 44. - Transported for Seven Years . Sidetracked As most researchers may attest to, I got sidetracked and followed links to god only knows where. I have found some of the most unique things that way but most are dead ends. I ended up at the national archive center. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp I think whoever KM Blanchet is they were in the mix of changing life as we know it now. See title, scope below ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- year of 1595
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1629 taxation for thomas blanchett for residence in somerset really interest me. Which somerset?
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Philip Blanchet, John Buller, George Bylieth, James Chambers, Thomas
Chambers, William Edwards, John Emley, Thomas Gofton, Henry Hookham, David
McMullan, Peter Nicholson, Colin Ross, William Somervile, Robert Taylor,
Michael Travers, John Wharham Greenwich out-pensioners applying for
admission into Greenwich Hospital as in-pensioners (after service in the
Royal Navy, Royal Marines or the Naval Dockyards)
