26. (M.) Esther Light proceedingsdefend , spinster , was indicted for stealing a woman's silk gown, value 1 l. 6 s. and three yards of Irish linen cloth, value 7 s. the property of Elizabeth Bailey proceedingsvictim This name instance is in a workspace. , spinster , Nov. 7 . *

Elizabeth Bailey < no role > . I am servant to Mr. Hall, a distiller, at Moregate. The prisoner was servant to Mrs. Corral in Whitechapel , where I had left my trunk, with the things mentioned in the indictment among other things in it. All were very safe in it the latter end of October; the box was locked, and I had the key. The day after Lord Mayor's day, I went to look in my trunk, and missed my piece of Irish and a silk gown. The trunk I found locked. I never got my things again.

Mary Corral < no role > . Elizabeth Bailey < no role > left her trunk at my house. I know the gown and piece of Irish were in it. The prisoner was my servant. She came the Wednesday week before Lord-Mayor's day. The trunk was in the room where she lay. She staid till Lord-Mayor's day three o'clock. She would stay no longer. Elizabeth Bailey < no role > came the day after to fetch the things away, and missed the gown and cloth. A warrant was taken out, and the prisoner was taken and charged with taking them. She owned she had sold the gown in Rosemary-lane for 1 l. 6 s. to Samuel Whitmore < no role > . She owned she took it out of the trunk, and hoped we would not hurt her. We went to Mr. Whitmore's, and he owned he had bought a gown of her, but had sold it the Monday after to a country person.

David Phillips < no role > . I was with the constable when the prisoner was taken up. I heard her confess she opened the trunk with a key of her own, and took out the gown, and locked the trunk again, and went and sold it in Rosemary-lane. We went with her to Mr. Whitmore's, who said he bought such a gown of her for 26 s. and that he had sold it.

Samuel Whitmore < no role > . I live at the Golden Ball in Rosemary-lane. On the Tuesday before Lord-Mayor's day my wife bought a silk gown of the prisoner for 26 s. it was a pink colour, lined with a dirty coloured white; and on the Tuesday following came a countrywoman and her two daughters; where they live I do not know. I sold it them with other things.

The prisoner in her defence said the gown she sold was her own.

Guilty T .