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

4th December 1755

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Currently Held: Harvard University Library

LL ref: s17551204-1




The trials being ended, the court proceeded to give judgement as follows:

Received sentence of death 6.

William Rutherford < no role > , Thomas Broadhust < no role > , Daniel Little < no role > , Christopher Wade < no role > , Richard Jeffreys < no role > , and Elizabeth Dove < no role > .

Transported for 14 years 2.

John Grierson < no role > , and Joseph Finnimore < no role > .

Transported for seven years 26.

Margaret Cooley < no role > , Thomas Davis < no role > , John Clayton < no role > , Susannah Stafford < no role > , John Peirson, Thomas Barnes, John Wingrove < no role > , John Hipworth < no role > , Rachael Marshal < no role > , Thomas Lampart < no role > , Joseph Stevens < no role > , Thomas Mullings < no role > , Peter Reddy < no role > , Ann Stafford < no role > , Thomas Haskins < no role > , Judith Couliman < no role > , Eleanor Hull < no role > This name instance is in set 875. , Elizabeth Randal < no role > , Elizabeth K, Elizabeth Delmore < no role > , Rebecca Chinnery < no role > , John Fugerson, John Weston < no role > , James Blunt < no role > , James Pottle < no role > , and John Fowls < no role > .

To be whip'd 2.

Henry Johnson < no role > , Sarah Hobey < no role > .

To be branded 2.

Vannch Johnson, James Dawson < no role > .

James Dillion proceedingsdefend , capitally convicted in September sessions, and John Carrol proceedingsdefend in October, received his most gracious pardon; on condition the first to be transported during his natural life, the other for fourteen years .

Ann Philips proceedingsdefend and Margaret Macdaniel proceedingsdefend , whose sentence was respited in September sessions, received sentence to be imprisoned three days , after which to be transported for seven years .

Stephen M'Daniel proceedingsdefend , John Berry proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 3516. , James Egan , otherwise Gahagan proceedingsdefend , and James Salmon proceedingsdefend , tried in August last, the verdict made special, received the opinion of their lordships the judges (to be acquitted) on that indictment . There was another preferred against them for a conspiracy.

John Benson proceedingsdefend , Samuel Dibble , otherwise Dipple proceedingsdefend , and Jonathan Wigmore proceedingsdefend , capitally convicted in September sessions; and Rowley Hanson proceedingsdefend in October sessions, were executed on Wednesday the 26th of November.

Sarah Robertson < no role > and John Hunt stood on the pillory pursuant to their sentence of last sessions, on Wednesday the 26th of November.




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