Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
27th February 1712
Mary
Blake
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and
Richard
Cecil
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of the Parish of St. Botolph Aldersgate
, were indicted for
stealing out of the House of
Francis
Oliver
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on the 17th of February
, 1 Sheet, 2 Napkins, 8 Shirts and Shifts, and divers other Linnen
. Mrs. Oliver swears, That about 7 a Clock in the Evening she went out and latch'd the Door; and coming in again presently, found it open, and the Goods gone; and that upon search, some of the Goods were found in a Trunk at Blake's House, and one of the Shifts upon her Back. She said in her Defence, that she bought 'em of an Earthen-ware Woman, but had no Witness; whereupon she was found
Guilty
: But the Evidence not being sufficient against Cecil, he was
acquitted
.
[Branding. See summary.]