 Ten Andover labourers received the death sentence, subsequently commuted to transportation to Australia.Two Hampshire labourers were hanged and the other convicted men were made to watch the executions.In the wake of the Swing Riots which had swept the South of England between June and November 1830, the Prime Minister, Earl Grey, established the Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws 1832 to decide how to change the Poor Law systems in England and Wales.