Note 130 — CHAP. XVI.
Reading edition
It is said that exile was first introduced as a punishment by the Legislature in the 39th year of Queen Elizabeth, when a statute (39 Eliz. c. 4.) enacted that such rogues as were dangerous to the inferior people should be banished the realm, Barr. Ant. Stat. 269: and that the first statute in which the word Transportation is used is the 18th of Charles II. c. 3. which gives power to Judges at their discretion either to execute or transport to America for life the Moss-Troopers of Cumberland and Northumberland; a law which was made perpetual by the Act 31 Geo. II. c. 42. 2 Woodd. 498.