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Many Irish criminals, even those who committed what we would now consider rather petty misdemeanors, ended their days on the gallows. For the rest, the usual punishment was transportation to British colonies. Many 17th- and 18th-century settlers in America and the Caribbean, until the American War of Independence, were in fact transportees.

The main sources for transportation have been collated and indexed in:

 P.W. Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage 1614–1775 (GPC, 1990).

 J.C. Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men sold for a term of years, Apprentices, Children stolen, Maidens pressed and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations 1660–1700 from MSS preserved in the State Paper department at the PRO (GPC, 1962).

 W.M. Wingfield, The Monmouth Rebels 1685 (Somerset Record Society, 1985) – for men sentenced to transportation after the Monmouth rebellion in Somerset, England, in 1685.