A British person sentenced to penal servitude in Australia; a convict.
about a third of the population at this time were Prisoners of the Crown
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We always were prisoners of the Crown and we remain so today.
The captain was aware Powers was a prisoner of the crown, and consequently left him on Howe's Island on his return to port.
Although at the time they were still officially prisoners of the crown, on obtaining their pardons, they became recognised as founding members of the association.
They were prisoners of the Crown, and the cattle-pen was their exercise ground.
It was commonly reported that Watt was living with a prisoner of the Crown.