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

4th December 1723

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William Munday proceedingsdefend , was indicted for a Misdemeanor, in solliciting , and suborning , Edward Davis proceedingsvictim , to make an Affidavit before Mr. Justice Denton, That he had, in the Name of William Munday, made an Offer and Tender of Payment of 52 s. to Mr. Clark, the 30th of June, in the Year 1722 . which he had not done . It appear'd by the Evidence. That upon Occasion of a Law Suit, William Munday was ordered by the Court of Common Pleas to pay to Mr. Clark, by such a Day, the said Sum, upon which Condition he was to forbear proceeding upon the said Munday and his Bail. He not paying the said 50 s. the said Mr. Clark does proceed against she said Munday and his Bail; whereupon he Producing the said Affidavit of Edward Davis's, that he had offered and tender'd the Money to the said Clark, upon the Day ordered, the Judgments obtained by Mr. Clark, against Will: Munday and his Bail, were set aside. But it afterwards appearing to the Court of common Pleas, as it did also at the Old Bailey, by the Evidence of the said Edward Davis, That he had made that Affidavit by the Instigation and Subornation of Munday, and that he had not made any such Offer or Tender of the 52 s. to Clark at that Time, the Jury found him guilty of the Misdemeanor.

He was also indicted a second Time for wilful Perjury, for making an Affidavit before Mr. Justice Tracy, that he never had any Notice from the said Mr. Clark, that he would have accepted the Payment of the 52 s. when it was sworn in Court, by an Evidence, That he had carried and delivered to him two Notes from Mr. Clark, that he would accept of the, Payment of the 52 s. The Jury found him guilty of this Indictment, and he was sentenc'd by the Court to pay a Fine of 20 l. for each Offence , to suffer 3 Months Imprisonment , and to stand twice on the Pillory .




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