London
At the General Session of Oyer and Terminer of our Lord the King holden for the
City of London
at Justice Hall in the old Bailey
within the Parish of Saint
Sepulchre in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London
aforesaid on
Wednesday the Twenty fourth day of October in the Twenty Seventh year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc.
London
The Jurors for our Lord the King upon their Oath present that at the General Session of the Delivery of the
Gaol of our Lord the King of Newgate holden for the City of London
at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey
within the Parish of Saint Sepulchre
in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London aforesaid
on Wednesday the Twelfth day of September in the Twenty Seventh year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc Before
Thomas Sainsbury< no role >
Esquire
mayor of the City of London
Sir
Henry Gould< no role >
Knight
one of the Justices of our said
Lord the King of his Court of Common Pleds Sir Nash Grose Knight
one of the Justices of our
said Lord the King assigned to hold Pleas before the king himself Sir
Alexander Thompson< no role >
Knight
one of the Baron of our said Lord the King of his Court of Exchequer
Sir
William Plomer< no role >
Knight
Richard Clark< no role >
Esquire
Aldermen
of the said City James Adair one of his Majesty's
Serjeants at Law
Recorder of the said City
Brook Watson Esquire
William Newman< no role >
Esquire other of the Aldermen of the said City
John William Rose< no role >
Esquire
and others
their fellows Justices of our said Lord the King assigned to deliver the said Gaol of newgate
of the Prisoners therein being Sarah Mc. Cormick by the name and description of Sarah
Mc. Cormick late of London
Spinster
was in due form of Law tried upon an Indictment
then and there depending against her by a Jury of the Country duly taken and Sworn
between our said Lord the King and the said Sarah Mc. Cormick in that behalf for
that she the said Sarah Mc. Cormick on the Eighteenth day of August in the twenty Seventh
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain Etc with force
and Aims
at London that is to say at the Parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great in the
Ward of Farringdon
without in London
aforesaid in the Kings Highway there in and upon
Thomas Mears< no role >
in the peace of God and our said Lord the King then and there being
feloniously did make an Assault and him the said Thomas in bodily fear and dager
of his life in the Kings Highway
aforesaid then and these feloniously did put and Six
peices of Silver Coin of this Realm called Shillings of the value of Six Shillings and
one other piece of Silver Coin of this Realm called a Six pence of the value of Six pence
of the Monies of the said Thomas from the person and against the will of the said Thomas
in the Kings Highway aforesaid then and there feloniously and Violently did Steal take
and carry away against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity
And the Jurors aforesaid
[..] now here Sworn and Charged to inquire
for our said Lord the King for the Body of the said City of London
upon their said Oath further
present That at and upon the said Trial it then and there became and was a material Question
whether in the Evening of the Eighteenth day of August in the Twenty Seventh Year
aforesaid Simon Carney came into the Dwelling House of him the said
Simon Carney< no role >
Known by the Sign of the Weavers Arms situate in Cloth Fair
in the Parish of Saint
Bartholomew the Great in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London
aforesaid while
the said
Thomas Mears< no role >
was Standing at the Door of the said House and whether the