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

22nd February 1786

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305. The said THOMAS BURDETT proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 1535. This set is in the group(s): GarrowsClients . , HENRY FAWCETT proceedingsdefend and WILLIAM BROWN proceedingsdefend were again indicted for burglariously and feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling house of William Carter proceedingsvictim and William Wake proceedingsvictim , about the hour of three in the night, on the 1st day of December last, and burglariously stealing therein, thirty pieces of black silk, value 200 l. and six pieces of Florentine satin, value 100 l. their property .

A second count, Laying it to be the house of William Carter < no role > only.

There being no evidence but that of the accomplice, the prisoners were ALL THREE ACQUITTED .

Prisoner Burdett. My Lord, I hope you will indulge me with a few words, with regard to this Nodeley; one house we robbed was my Lord Grantham's, of all the gold medals, he had the Speaker's gown, and the grand seal, and the gold off the gown he burned.

Tried by the London Jury before Mr. RECORDER.




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