Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
7th July 1680
THe first Trial of note was of a
Woman-Servant
proceedingsdefend
, who had
robb'd her
Master
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, 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.]