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

23rd February 1785

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Currently Held: Harvard University Library

LL ref: s17850223-1




The Sessions being ended, the Court proceeded to pass Judgment as follows.

Received sentence of Death 33, viz.

Michael Johnson < no role > otherwise M'Mahon, Robert Mott < no role > , Holland Palmer otherwise Farmer, Ann Jones < no role > , Peter Newberry < no role > , William Iverson < no role > , Joseph Hitchcock < no role > otherwise Church, John Miles < no role > , James Gray < no role > , Joseph Mead < no role > , Charles Peyton < no role > , James Lapier < no role > , John Lucas < no role > , Richard Summers < no role > otherwise Smith, John Waters < no role > , Henry Jackson < no role > , William Weston < no role > , James Coyle < no role > , Thomas West < no role > , Rose Fitzpatrick, James Wiggans < no role > , James Russel < no role > , James Cowan < no role > , John Oliver < no role > , John Johnson < no role > otherwise Bandy, Henry Murphy < no role > , Thomas Ives < no role > , Robert Roberts < no role > , William Bland < no role > , Jasper Robbins < no role > , Elizabeth Chapman < no role > , Benjamin Stokes < no role > , Ann Mott < no role > .

To be transported for seven years, 39.

David Jones < no role > , William Bradley < no role > , William Price < no role > , Luke Rogers < no role > , James Oakes < no role > , William Kybard < no role > , Elizabeth Lee otherwise Lees, Thomas Curzon < no role > , Thomas Smith, Richard Claridge, William Moseley < no role > , John Hyam < no role > , Matthew Marks < no role > , Francis Scott < no role > , Thomas Douty < no role > , Joseph Payne < no role > , George Patterson < no role > , James Donovan < no role > , John Brown, Thomas Hamilton < no role > , Simon Goring < no role > , Christopher Webb < no role > , Joseph Partridge < no role > , Alexander Fisher < no role > , William Mountain, Thomas Ward < no role > , William Litchfield, James Penny, John Brett < no role > , William Smith, Thomas Jones < no role > , John Babbit < no role > , Thomas Jones, Joseph Sharp < no role > , Edward Roberts, Elizabeth Hippesly < no role > , Mary Morton, Thomas Gray, and Edward Walker < no role > otherwise Fines.

To be confined to hard labour two years in the House of Correction, 4.

Robert Franklin < no role > , James Bushnell < no role > , William Jacknell < no role > , Charlotte Beach.

To be confined to hard labour twelve months in the House of Correction, 2.

Sarah Sparkes < no role > , Elizabeth Stacoy < no role > .

To be confined to hard labour six months in the House of Correction, 19.

Solomon Spencer < no role > , Timothy Lee < no role > , Elizabeth Baldwin < no role > , Thomas Sawyer < no role > , George Vanderbeck < no role > , Joseph Rawlins < no role > , John White < no role > , Abel Drudge < no role > , Joseph Lee < no role > , Ann Agus < no role > , Rachel Hughes < no role > , Catherine Brown < no role > , and Jane Bone < no role > .

To be imprisoned one month, 1.

Elizabeth Johnson < no role > .

To be imprisoned fourteen days, 1 s.

Mary Skiddle < no role > .

To be publickly whipped, 19.

Solomon Spencer < no role > , James Thomas < no role > , John Malin < no role > , George Vanderbeck < no role > , Joseph Rawlins < no role > , John White < no role > , Abel Drudge < no role > , Charles Zachary < no role > , Richard Walker < no role > , William Grindley < no role > , Joseph Lee < no role > , Charles Worland < no role > , Thomas Webb < no role > , James Macdonald < no role > , Robert Simpson < no role > , Samuel Lavender < no role > , William Bird < no role > , John Morris < no role > , and James Riley < no role > .

Fined, 1 s.

Mary Skiddle < no role > .

Fined, 6 d.

Ann Agus < no role > , Elizabeth Johnson < no role > .

The Trial of Mess. Goodridges and Evans is postponed till next Sessions.

The Court adjourned to Saturday the 19th of March, at Eleven o'clock.

On Saturday the 19th of March, the following Convicts were put to the bar, who had been tried and convicted at several former Sessions, and received the several sentences following, viz.

To be transported for life to Africa, 12.

John Ruglass proceedingsdefend , Samuel Woodham proceedingsdefend , Thomas Freeman proceedingsdefend , John Harris proceedingsdefend , James Shiers proceedingsdefend , Joseph Tuso proceedingsdefend , John Pontie proceedingsdefend , John Matthew Cox proceedingsdefend , John Ruffler proceedingsdefend , Mary Marshall proceedingsdefend , Ann Read proceedingsdefend , John Moseley proceedingsdefend .

To be transported to Africa for seven years, 18.

John Boyle proceedingsdefend , Samuel Thompson proceedingsdefend , George otherwise John Campbell proceedingsdefend , Samuel Hall proceedingsdefend , Sarah Slater proceedingsdefend , Richard Middleton proceedingsdefend , Elizabeth Leonard proceedingsdefend , James otherwise William Balding proceedingsdefend , Thomas Till proceedingsdefend , Simon Young proceedingsdefend , Thomas Cale proceedingsdefend , Edward Garth proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 309. , James Smith proceedingsdefend , Ferdinand Dowland proceedingsdefend , Robert Artz proceedingsdefend , Thomas Gore proceedingsdefend , John Davison proceedingsdefend , Charles Hughes proceedingsdefend .

The following persons who were sentenced to be transported to America were ordered to be transported to Africa.

John Hall, Aquilla Beck, John Moren < no role > , George Bannister, Henry Griffiths < no role > This name instance is in set 1384. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . , Ann Wright < no role > , Samuel Peyton < no role > This name instance is in set 1392. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . , Mary Laurence < no role > , Richard Percival < no role > , William Hinton < no role > , James Burleigh < no role > , Thomas Orford < no role > , William Lee < no role > , John Duffley < no role > , William Wright < no role > , William Morgan < no role > , Peter Bond < no role > , Daniel Clark < no role > , Ann More, Sarah Partridge alias Roberts, John Parker < no role > for seven years, and Charles Peat < no role > for life.

The following persons were also sentenced to be transported to Africa for the undermentioned terms, viz.

Edward Smith proceedingsdefend , Henry Smith proceedingsdefend , Thomas Griffiths proceedingsdefend , Philip Farrell proceedingsdefend , William Walsh proceedingsdefend for seven years; John Dennis otherwise Hammond proceedingsdefend for fourteen years; John Walker proceedingsdefend , James Holloway proceedingsdefend for seven years; Richard Small proceedingsdefend for fourteen years; David Jacobs proceedingsdefend , John Young proceedingsdefend , William Parish proceedingsdefend , George Wood proceedingsdefend for seven years; John Stogdell proceedingsdefend for fourteen years; Benjamin Major proceedingsdefend , James Davis proceedingsdefend , Benjamin Ingraham proceedingsdefend , Catherine Hart proceedingsdefend , Nicholas English proceedingsdefend , Charles Stone proceedingsdefend , John Jepp proceedingsdefend , Mary Branham proceedingsdefend This name instance is in a workspace. , Robert Jones proceedingsdefend for seven years; Elizabeth Colley proceedingsdefend for fourteen years; Robert Able proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1426. , William Moore otherwise Ransmore proceedingsdefend , Thomas Howard proceedingsdefend , George Thorp proceedingsdefend , William Elliott otherwise Ellard proceedingsdefend , John Massias proceedingsdefend , Jacob Bellat proceedingsdefend , George Raymond proceedingsdefend , John Hart proceedingsdefend , and John Westwood proceedingsdefend for seven years.




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