Folios 30-32; 66-67. P Cromp Chairman of the Maidstone Quarter Sessions writes from...

Folios 30-32; 66-67. P Cromp Chairman of the Maidstone Quarter Sessions writes from Frinsted, near Maidstone, Kent, to warn Lord Sydney that any application for a pardon on behalf of Alexander Remington should be assessed in the light of his notorious offending. A former smuggler he was employed as an assistant by the Excise but abused his position by stopping and searching innocent people in a most barbarous way, stealing corn and hay from barns for his companions, and appropriating smuggled goods to his own ends. He disabled 2 unarmed smugglers by hacking them about so badly that they and their families are now a charge on the parish. He was convicted of a highway robbery and sentenced to 7 years transportation. The public applauded when sentenced was announced. He has been a terror in the area and if he is not sent away nobody will be safe. Folios 66-67 convey a request from Lord Fairfax and others that Remington be permitted to leave the country with his brother, a captain in the Artillery, who undertakes to transport his brother to New Brunswick.