Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

7th December 1692

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Thomas Wale proceedingsdefend of Fullham , was tried for breaking the House of Robert Lympany proceedingsvictim in the same Town, on the 7th of October 1688, and taking away 2 s. Mr. Lympany's Evidence said, that the Prisoner was seen to jump out at the window of Mr. Lympany's Shop, and the Money was in a Box; which was mist in the morning, and the Doors were fast shut when the Family went to bed; it was supposed that the Prisoner was disturbed, or else he might have taken other Goods that were in the Shop; and the Witness could swear only to his Voice; and it was at midnight that he said he saw him come out of the window; so he could not be found guilty of the Burglary, and was discharged of the Felony by vertue of Their Majesties most Gracious Pardon .




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