James Davey, was tried at the Essex Summer Assizes in Chelmsford, on 28 July 1802, for breaking into the shop and dwelling of Joseph Presland at Debden. James and his accomplices, Robert Davey andWilliam Mills, were accused of stealing six yards of Irish cloth worth 10 shillings, a silk handkerchief and a pair of worsted stockingsvalued at two shillings each. They were also accused of taking £10 cash and four banknotes worth a pound each. They all pleaded notguilty and were acquitted. However, the jurors found that James wasalso responsible for the theft of three sacks, each valued at tenpence, on three separate occasions (stolen from a Charles Bunting the Elder on 6 October 1799 and 4 March 1801 and from William Thurgood,on 15 June 1802). Justice Baron Hotham sentence James to seven years transportation.