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

13th September 1758

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Currently Held: Harvard University Library

LL ref: s17580913-1




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.




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