Transported to Barbados

This document ref.HSA1667/W/58 is a Calendar of Prisoners in the County Gaol 1667. The last entry notes that John Dunne and Thomas Haynes were 'to be transported into Barbadoes by the order of the bench at the general quarter sessions the twenteth day of July.' Note that John Bunyan is also listed as a prisoner at the this time, gaoled for a 'misdemeanor'.

Why is this document at Bedfordshire & Luton Archives?

The collection covering the years 1653 to 1688 was purchased by Bedfordshire Record Office in the summer of 1934 by instalments, from Robert Rawley, then of Chertsey Road, Ashford Common, Middx., a dealer in old documents. He stated that he had bought them from a "waste paper merchant."

Some are documents made for the Sheriff in preparation for the Assize; some are submitted to the Assize by the Clerk of the Peace or Justices of the Peace. They are therefore, strictly speaking, Public Records. The attention of the Master of the Rolls and of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records [now the National Archives] was called to the fact that these documents were being sold in open market to various Counties and private purchasers; after careful consideration, the authorities seem to have decided not to insist upon their transference to public custody. The Deputy Keeper was able to trace that they had recently been removed from a house in King's Bench Walk in the Middle Temple.The majority of records of the Assizes Court are held by the National Archives.