Punishment of women 6
Transportation
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Just as women were subjected to being whipped in much the same way as men when they were convicted of a felony, they also received similar treatment in the case of transportation.
The records of the Quarter Sessions contain many references to the sentencing of women to transportation for many years, often for what seem today to be very minor crimes. One such example is shown below.
Breconshire
Quarter Sessions
Epiphany 1787
Powys
County Archives
B/QS/O/5
The extract shown here, from the Order Books of the
Breconshire Quarter Sessions, reads as follows:
"Ordered that Ann Stote who was convicted at this Quarter
Sessions of Stealing a Surplice be Transported for the Term of
seven years to one of his Majesty's Settlements abroad."
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