Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
4th July 1722
Penelope
Gough
proceedingsdefend
of St. Sepulchres
, was indicted for
feloniously a Callico Gown and Petticoat, value 39 s.
the Goods of
Hannah
Hodges
proceedingsvictim
, on the 31st of May
last. Hannah Hodges depos'd, that going to the prisoner at
Grace
Halseys
< no role >
, at the Rising Sun in Peters Lane, near Hicks's Hall
, the prisoner persuaded her to join for a Bottle of Cyder and half a Pint of Brandy. That being drunk, they lay there all Night, and next Morning she saw the prisoner ripping her Gown to pieces. That the prisoner lent her a Callimanco Gown, and they went together to the Camp; from whence the prisoner brought home a Soldier, and lock'd him and her together in a Room; but the Soldier told her he would not be rude with her, because he saw she was a civil body. The prisoner in her Defence, said, she chang'd Gowns with her, and gave 2 s to boot.
Mary
Henry
< no role >
depos'd, that Hannah Hodges told her, that she desired the prisoner to entertain her two or three Nights; and that they had chang'd Cloths with each other. The Jury
acquitted
her.