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

7th July 1680

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THe first Trial of note was of a Woman-Servant proceedingsdefend , who had robb'd her Master proceedingsvictim , at several times, of a very great Sum of Money : The Gentleman miss'd about Six hundred pounds, but the Prisoner had Confess'd Two hundred, which she purloyn'd by the help of a false Key to his Closet. Yet now she would seem to deny all, and lay it upon some other persons belonging to the Family; but the Crime was too apparent to be evaded, and so she was found Guilty .

[Death. See summary.]




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