Note 11 — Chapter XXX · REPENTANCE AND AMENDMENT
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The specimens in question may be seen distinguished by a label attached to them with the following words:—
Manura Superba. "Lyra, or Botany Bay Pheasant.
"These beautiful birds were sent to the late Mrs. Cobbold, of the Cliff, by Margaret Catchpole, a female servant, who stole a coach-horse from the late John Cobbold, Esq., and rode it up to London in one night. She was in the act of selling the horse when she was taken. She was in man’s apparel. She was tried at Bury in 1797, and received sentence of death, which sentence, owing to the entreaties of the prosecutor, was changed to seven years’ transportation; but breaking out of gaol, she was afterwards transported for life.
"Presented to this Museum by R. K. Cobbold, Esq.”