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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.18 (search)
twelve pence were by the common law subject to the death penalty. Tucker, Volume IV, page 236. It would appear that the transportation of felons to America was first authorized by Parliament in 1663, when an act was passed sending hither the Morse Troopers of Cumberland and Northumberland. Blackstone, Philadelphia Edition, 1841, Volume I, side note 18, page 137. The presence of these Puritans in Virginia was speedily felt. An insurrection among the white servants of the colony in September, 1663, led, states Beverley, by Oliverian soldiers, Beverley, pages 5-8. gave so great an alarm that measures were taken by vigorous enactment to prohibit the importation of such dangerous and scandalous people, since thereby we apparently lose our reputation. Hening, Volume II, page 510. In 1671 Captains Bristow and Walker were made to give security in the some of 1,000,000 pounds of tobacco and cask that certain Newgate birds be sent out of the colony within two months. Ibid, page 511.