Going back and looking at the Staffs Lent Seesions there were “28 prisoners capitally convicted, and sentenced to death...including a William Bolton for house-breaking, and a William Bolton for sacrilege...23 of these capital convicts were reprieved before the judges left town, but 5 others are left for execution...
....in the case of William Bolton and Joseph Jostage, they appeared to belong to a gang of depregators, possessed by a variety of implements, by the use of which they were enabled to break into that Sacred place, which probably they have scarce visited since their baptismal rites had been performed, and stealing those things which they admitted were of little value to them; that Book to which the true Christians turned for consolation in the hour of grief, was to them an object of plunder....
...such of them whose lives were spared, must be transported for life.”
The William Bolton convicted of house-breaking at this Stafford Session is not the one to appear as No 482 on the Lord Hungerford. No 482 is (18?) and his trial date was 31 March at Warwick, and not Stafford. Also at Stafford some ages of 16, 17 and 18 are given.