And here are some of those cannibals being given appropriate sentences
Newcastle Courant 26 July 1755:
"At the last General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for Northumberland, at Hexham,
Robert Matthews, of Amble, fisherman, was tried and convicted of stealing and taking away goods stranded and cast on shore on the Northumberland Coast, contrary to the Act of Parliament lately made, and was sentenced to be committed to the House of Correction, and kept at hard labour for three months, and to be publicly whipped three times thro Morpeth Town on Wednesday, the Market day, each whipping to be at the end of each month.
John Falcus and George Thompson were charged with the like offence, but having made satisfaction to Mr John Jobson, master and mariner, for the goods by them so unlawfully taken, the said Mr Jobson did not proceed any further in the prosecution against them."