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Ninety-eight days after being sentenced to death, Mary Wade and Jane Whiting were granted his Majesty's pardon from their death sentences, on the condition that they be transported to Australia for the term of their lives.

A transcript of the trial at which Mary Wade was sentenced to death on the 14th January 1789 at the Old Bailey.

New analysis since the publication of  Mary Wade to Us (1986) about the identity of Mary Wade's parents