Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
7th December 1692
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
.