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

8th December 1784

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Currently Held: Harvard University Library

LL ref: s17841208-1




ERRATA.

In the first Trial of Richard Smith < no role > , for Guilty, read, Not Guilty.

In the second Trial of ditto, for Guilty, read, Guilty, Death.

In the Trial of Edward Garth < no role > This name instance is in set 309. , for Guilty, read, Guilty, Death.

In the Trial of Richard Hobson < no role > , for Guilty, read, Guilty, Death.

The Sessions being ended, the Court proceeded to give Judgment as follows:

Received sentence of death, 31.

James Dunn < no role > , John Evans < no role > , George Robinson < no role > , James Hamilton < no role > , William Stewart < no role > , William Astell < no role > , William Giles < no role > , Philip Patch < no role > , Henry Rutter < no role > , Allen Williams < no role > , Thomas Tabbs < no role > , George Harris < no role > , John Shaw < no role > , Thomas Buttledoze < no role > , John Moody < no role > , Richard Smith < no role > , Thomas Cale < no role > , George Goldsmith < no role > , Laurence Hall, John Jones < no role > , Richard Hobson < no role > , William Finder < no role > , William Abbott < no role > , John Kelsey < no role > , William Benton < no role > , Melvin Simmons < no role > , Edward Garth < no role > This name instance is in set 309. , James Smith < no role > , Ferdinand Dowland < no role > , Samuel Warner < no role > , and Edward Johnson < no role > .

To be transported for fourteen years, 1.

Elizabeth Colley < no role > .

To be transported for seven years, 39.

Charles Stone < no role > , Andrew Simms < no role > , John Jeff < no role > , William Smart < no role > , Joseph Davis < no role > , John < no role > M'Gowan, William Cox < no role > , Alexander < no role > M'Donald, Thomas Watson < no role > , James Davis < no role > , James Thomas < no role > , Isaac Warren < no role > , John Cashon < no role > , William Hall, Benjamin Ingram < no role > , Thomas Wale < no role > , Luke Rogers < no role > , William Gilbert < no role > , Edward Humphreys < no role > , Michael Sullivan < no role > , George Francisco < no role > , Edward Brett < no role > , Israel Silcock, Mary Bramham < no role > , Robert Jones < no role > , Benjamin West < no role > , James Hobbs < no role > , Charles Medley < no role > , Catherine Hart < no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , Nicholas Greenwell < no role > , Robert Freeman < no role > , Dennis Hayes < no role > , Jonathan Payne < no role > , William Bacot < no role > , Isaac Dukes < no role > , George Newton < no role > , William Thomas < no role > , Thomas Clar < no role > ke, and Nicholas English < no role > .

To be imprisoned in Newgate two years, 1.

Margaret Small < no role > .

To be confined to hard labour twelve months in the House of Correction, 3.

William Nobes < no role > , Mary Horton < no role > , and Margaret Murphy < no role > .

To be confined to hard labour six months in the House of Correction, 8.

Thomas Bolton < no role > , Richard Brady < no role > , William Wills < no role > , William Smith < no role > , Lara Israel < no role > , Elizabeth Burley < no role > , Mary Birch < no role > , and Elizabeth Pritchard < no role > .

To be imprisoned three months in Newgate, 1.

Hannah Trotter < no role > .

To be publickly whipped, 25.

Abraham Slater < no role > , William Jackson < no role > , John Bryant < no role > , Edward Craker < no role > , William Walls < no role > , James Lee < no role > , John Fullman < no role > , John Bime < no role > , George Varlow < no role > , Charles Howard < no role > , William Cooper < no role > , John Morgan < no role > , John Lipper < no role > , Thomas < no role > M'Cann, Isaac Dupree < no role > , James Coates < no role > , John How < no role > , James Cook < no role > , William Wild < no role > , William How < no role > , Edward Wright < no role > , John Halway < no role > , John Evans < no role > , James Matthews < no role > , and John Taylor < no role > .

To be fined one shilling, 6.

John Grattan < no role > , Ann Petrie < no role > , Samuel Lane, Elizabeth Brown < no role > , James Brotherton < no role > , and Joel Abrahams < no role > .

To be fined sixpence, 1.

Robert Jones < no role > .

Richard Marsh proceedingsdefend was called to the bar, and informed by the Court, that his case was reserved till the opinion of the twelve Judges on the case of Humphry Moore was declared, as it was governed by that, being exactly similar, and there was no ground, either in fact or law, for drawing any distinction between them; and the Judges having declared their opinion, that the case of Moore amounted to a felonious stealing, the sentence of the Court upon him the said Richard Marsh < no role > was, to be transported for seven years .

John Westwood < no role > was ordered to remain till next Sessions.

Hickman and Dias to remain on their former order.

Robert Abel proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1426. , capitally convicted at a former Sessions, received his Majesty's pardon, upon condition of being transported for seven years.

John Ruglass < no role > , a transport to the coast of Africa, who had been found at large, was set to the bar, and confessed he was the man that had received his Majesty's pardon, on condition of being so transported; but alledged, that Governor Lacey, the Governor of the island, sent them off, and would not give them any victuals: he was ordered to remain under under his former sentence, and told he must represent his case to the King, and apply to him for mercy.




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