LondonLives may prove fruitful for you... Richard shows up a few times. He's in Bridewell at the beginning of October 1697, "under security for Transportacon" with a note that he's to be sent back to Newgate.

The same site, in one of its background articles, states:

Transportation dates from the seventeenth century, but the number transported was relatively low, because the cost of the voyage had to be paid for either by the convict or a merchant or shipowner.

One possibility is that he could not raise the funds for his journey, nor find a merchant to buy his indentured labour (and pay for jail fees, paperwork etc.) He'd be most attractive as an investment if he had useful skills and/or was young and healthy.

It's also the case that after 1670, both Virginia and Maryland passed laws prohibiting transportation, which will have restricted the market for his services.

I do note that the Ordinary's Account of 3 November 1697 doesn't explicitly mention him being hanged, although the deaths of others are mentioned. Perhaps the Ordinary wasn't present at the death. Or perhaps Richard wasn't actually hanged. From a description of the Ordinary's Accounts:

Most of the Accounts follow a similar format. They include a short summary of the names and crimes of those sentenced to death (including convicts subsequently reprieved), [emphasis mine] accounts of the Ordinary's sermon and his visits to the condemned prisoners, short biographical sketches of each criminal, and a description of their final confessions and behaviour at their executions.

LondonLives may prove fruitful for you... Richard shows up a few times. He's in Bridewell at the beginning of October 1697, "under security for Transportacon" with a note that he's to be sent back to Newgate.

The same site, in one of its background articles, states:

Transportation dates from the seventeenth century, but the number transported was relatively low, because the cost of the voyage had to be paid for either by the convict or a merchant or shipowner.

One possibility is that he could not raise the funds for his journey, nor find a merchant to buy his indentured labour (and pay for jail fees, paperwork etc.) He'd be most attractive as an investment if he had useful skills and/or was young and healthy.

I do note that the Ordinary's Account of 3 November 1697 doesn't explicitly mention him being hanged, although the deaths of others are mentioned. Perhaps the Ordinary wasn't present at the death. Or perhaps Richard wasn't actually hanged. From a description of the Ordinary's Accounts:

Most of the Accounts follow a similar format. They include a short summary of the names and crimes of those sentenced to death (including convicts subsequently reprieved), [emphasis mine] accounts of the Ordinary's sermon and his visits to the condemned prisoners, short biographical sketches of each criminal, and a description of their final confessions and behaviour at their executions.

LondonLives may prove fruitful for you... Richard shows up a few times. He's in Bridewell at the beginning of October 1697, "under security for Transportacon" with a note that he's to be sent back to Newgate.

The same site, in one of its background articles, states:

Transportation dates from the seventeenth century, but the number transported was relatively low, because the cost of the voyage had to be paid for either by the convict or a merchant or shipowner.

One possibility is that he could not raise the funds for his journey, nor find a merchant to buy his indentured labour (and pay for jail fees, paperwork etc.) He'd be most attractive as an investment if he had useful skills and/or was young and healthy.

It's also the case that after 1670, both Virginia and Maryland passed laws prohibiting transportation, which will have restricted the market for his services.

I do note that the Ordinary's Account of 3 November 1697 doesn't explicitly mention him being hanged, although the deaths of others are mentioned. Perhaps the Ordinary wasn't present at the death.

LondonLives may prove fruitful for you... Richard shows up a few times. He's in Bridewell at the beginning of October 1697, "under security for Transportacon" with a note that he's to be sent back to Newgate.

The same site, in one of its background articles, states:

Transportation dates from the seventeenth century, but the number transported was relatively low, because the cost of the voyage had to be paid for either by the convict or a merchant or shipowner.

One possibility is that he could not raise the funds for his journey, nor find a merchant to buy his indentured labour (and pay for jail fees, paperwork etc.) He'd be most attractive as an investment if he had useful skills and/or was young and healthy.

It's also the case that after 1670, both Virginia and Maryland passed laws prohibiting transportation, which will have restricted the market for his services.

I do note that the Ordinary's Account of 3 November 1697 doesn't explicitly mention him being hanged, although the deaths of others are mentioned. Perhaps the Ordinary wasn't present at the death. Or perhaps Richard wasn't actually hanged. From a description of the Ordinary's Accounts:

Most of the Accounts follow a similar format. They include a short summary of the names and crimes of those sentenced to death (including convicts subsequently reprieved), [emphasis mine] accounts of the Ordinary's sermon and his visits to the condemned prisoners, short biographical sketches of each criminal, and a description of their final confessions and behaviour at their executions.