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12th April 1775 - 1st November 1777

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Image 147 of 24815th October 1777


Middlesex Prisoners upon Orders.

1 Thomas Jones< no role >
2 James Harrison< no role > ,
3 John Graves< no role > ,}
Attainted last session of several burglaries and felonies, and received
judgment of death,

4 Jeremiah Fogg< no role > ,
5 Thomas Phillips< no role > ,
6 Daniel East< no role > ,
7 Stephen Broadstreet< no role > This name instance is in set 1992. ,
8 William Gray< no role > ,
9 Thomas Hawley< no role > ,}
Convicted last session of several felonies and grand larcenies,
and ordered to be kept to hard labour in raising sand, soil,
and gravel from, and cleansing the river Thames , viz. the
said Jeremiah Fogg< no role > and Thomas Phillips< no role > for the term of 7
years; the said Daniel East< no role > and Stephen Broadstreet for the
term of 6 years; the said William Gray< no role > for the term of 4
years; and the said Thomas Hawley< no role > for the term of 3 years, pursuant to the
statute, Etc.

10 Charles Robert Featley< no role > , convicted last session of petit larceny; but his judgment being
respited, in ordered to remain until next session.

He also stands indicted at the session of the peace for petit larceny, by the name of
Charles Roberts< no role > .

11 John Plunkitt< no role > ,
12 Benjamin Johnson< no role > ,}
Indicted last session for burglariously breaking and entering the
dwelling house of John Pierpoint< no role > , and stealing 18. pair of
mens leather shoes, value 30s. but the said John Plunkitt< no role > being incapable, through
sickness, to take his trial, they were ordered to remain.

The said John Plunkitt< no role > is charged by certificate of articles of the peace exhibited against
him at the last session of the peace for the county of Middlesex , by John Sherwood< no role >
Esq ; one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county.

13 Sarah Newman< no role > , standing indicted for stealing a furtout coat, value 10s. of John
Wyatt
< no role > ; but being sick, ordered to remain.Is since dead.

14 John Smith< no role > , otherwise Smithwaite< no role > , standing indicted for stealing 2 pair of thread stock-
ings, value 10s. the property of Edward Lovibond< no role > , privately in his shop; but on
the affidavit of the said John Smith< no role > , otherwise Smithwaite, and another, of the
absence of a material witness, ordered to remain.

15 Morris Geary< no role > ,
16 John Riley< no role > ,
17 Mary Evans< no role > ,
18 Catherine Reeves< no role > ,}
Standing indicted for high-treason in colouring pieces of base metal,
resembling half crowns and shillings with a wash and materials
producing the colour of silver; were, on the affidavit of the said
Morris. Geary< no role > and another of the absence of a material witness
for him on his trial, and the other prisoners desiring their trials might be postponed,
were ordered to remain.

The said Morris Geary< no role > stands charged, on oath of Dennis M'Donald< no role > , John Dixon< no role > ,
and Florence Driskell< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , for being accomplice with Arthur Buckingham< no role > in traiterously
and feloniously making, coining and counterfeiting the current coin of this realm
called half-crowns, shillings and six pences, in the parish of Stanstead , in the county
of Kent.

19 Michael Welch< no role > , standing indicted for feloniously stealing one man's hat, value 16s.
of Matthew Bishop< no role > ; but having pleaded auter foit acquit, and made affidavit that
he has not had time to procure a copy of the record of such former acquittal, the
trial is put off, and the said Michael Welch< no role > ordered to remain.

Bailed.

20 Richard Wiltshire< no role > . Upon reading the petition of the prisoner to be tried, bailed, or
discharged, filed at the sitting of the Court, and also the affidavit of John Acton< no role > ,
Gent . solicitor for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England , it was
(at the last session) ordered that the said Richard Wiltshire< no role > be referred to give bail
before Sir John Fielding< no role > , Knt . one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the
county of Middlesex , and who committed the said Richard Wiltshire< no role > , for his per-
sonal appearance at the next session of oyer and terminer and general goal delivery




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