Burglary was, in the past, only used to describe cases where a lodging was entered while it was occupied. If not occupied the crime was one of housebreaking. In this database burglary is used in the modern sense of when a place of lodging was entered, and goods stolen. In a legal sense there is a distinction but for the sake of simplicity the two have been combined in this database to cover the more common crime of burglary. Other cases of fraud involve forgery or some other attempt at financial deceit.
Sacrilege is the destruction of religious objects.
Receiving stolen goods, like theft is self explanatory. If the records are not available the database lists the crime as not recorded. For the purposes of the database Life is given the number 99 years. Two convicts received sentences of transportation for 5 years. The term of 7 years was so common that in one of these cases there was an initial, and later corrected, clerical error.