Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
13th September 1758
The trials being ended, the court proceeded to give judgement as follows:
Received sentence of death, 5.
Richard
Spencer
< no role >
;
Mary
Bulger
< no role >
;
John
Downs
< no role >
;
Thomas
Head
< no role >
;
John
Read
< no role >
otherwise Hoskins.
Mary
Bulger
< no role >
pleaded her belly, and a jury of matrons were impanneled, and brought in their verdict, not quick.
For transportation for fourteen years, 1.
Walter
Buckland
< no role >
.
For transportation for seven years, 28.
William Davey;
Elizabeth
Laurence
< no role >
;
Richard
Chester
< no role >
;
John
Timms
< no role >
; William Smith; John Brown;
Thomas
Moon
< no role >
;
Martha
Wright
< no role >
;
John
Pain
< no role >
;
Sarah
Finch
< no role >
;
Margaret
Burk
< no role >
;
Edward
Gee
< no role >
;
James
Battle
< no role >
;
Michael
Lynch
< no role >
;
Anne
Davis
< no role >
; Isabella Butler;
Elizabeth
Durham
< no role >
;
Abigail
Glyn
< no role >
; Richard Ash;
Henry
Heron
< no role >
;
Carew
Barnaby
< no role >
;
Anne
Bell
< no role >
;
William
More
< no role >
;
Elizabeth
Johnson
< no role >
;
Edward
Williams
< no role >
; Mary Smith;
William
Lyon
< no role >
; and
Michael
Drawater
< no role >
.
To be branded, 2.
Mary
Howel
< no role >
, and
Richard
Wyman
< no role >
.
To be whipped, 5.
Sarah
Edwards
< no role >
;
Robert
Butterworth
< no role >
;
Anne
Neat
< no role >
;
Judith
Riley
< no role >
; and
Anne
Wheatley
< no role >
.
John
Carrier
proceedingsdefend
, convicted in June sessions;
Richard
Spencer
proceedingsdefend
;
John
Downs
proceedingsdefend
;
Thomas
Head
proceedingsdefend
, convicted this sessions; and
Margaret
Larney
proceedingsdefend
, convicted in January sessions, were executed pursuant to their sentences on Monday the 2d. of October.