Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
22nd May 1776
The Sessions being ended, the Court proceeded to give Judgment as follows:
Received Sentence of Death fifteen.
George
Rowney
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,
Thomas
Rowney
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,
John
Mayo
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,
John
Standish
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,
James
Humphries
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,
Henry
Jordan
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,
Benjamin
Bates
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, John Green,
William
Davis
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,
Thomas
Kinman
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,
William
Blackett
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,
James
Lecores
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, and
William
Godfrey
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.
Thomas
Askew
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and
Joseph
Bissell
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received sentence to be drawn upon a hurdle to the place of execution.
Archibald
Girdwood
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and
Thomas
Jones
, otherwise
Evans
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, formerly capitally convicted, but upon whom judgment had been respited till the opinions of the Judges could be taken upon a point of law arising in their respective cases, were set to the bar, when Mr. Justice ASTON informed them, that the Judges were unanimously of opinion that their conviction was strictly legal, and they accordingly received sentence of death.
Whipped five.
Jacob
Jonas
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,
Mary
Smith
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,
James
Price
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,
Edward
Fawcett
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, and
Elizabeth
Jones
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.
Branded and imprisoned four.
John
Blackwell
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,
Susannah
Smith
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, John Brown, and
Francis
Benson
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.
The following prisoners, who were convicted of grand larceny in April Sessions, received sentence to be branded in the hand, and imprisoned for fourteen days.
Thomas
Proctor
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,
John
Ford
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,
William
Smith
, alias
Archer
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,
William
Barton
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,
John
Murphy
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,
Frances
Nash
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,
Robert
Smith
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,
James
Paris
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,
John
Aldersey
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,
Timothy
Marshall
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,
John
White
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,
Patrick
Knowland
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,
Sarah
Armstrong
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,
John
Lloyd
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,
Joseph
Penticross
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,
Valentine
Fuller
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,
Moses
Emanuel
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,
Henry
Hart
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, and
Benjamin
Harvey
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.
Imprisoned for one month.
Christopher
Wilkinson
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,
Susannah
Newman
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,
John
Beard
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, and
Sarah
Small
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.
Branded.
Elizabeth
Harris
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,
John
Morgan
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,
William
Kitchenman
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,
John
Jenkins
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,
Francis
Bartlow
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,
Elizabeth
Bates
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,
Elizabeth
Williams
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,
Henry
Hammon
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, and
Elizabeth
Kelly
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.
Prisoners convicted of grand larceny in April Sessions, branded.
Isaac
Hutchinson
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,
John
Furze
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,
Charles
Drake
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, and
Thomas
Farmer
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.
Stephen
Self
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branded
and
imprisoned nine months
.
Thomas
Copperthwaite
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to be imprisoned three months in Newgate, and to stand in the pillory at the Royal Exchange.
Isaac
Stone
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to be imprisoned three months, and then to find sureties for his good behaviour for one year.