Elizabeth Wolf proceedingsdefend , Ann Smith proceedingsdefend , and Mary Roly proceedingsdefend , were Arraigned Indicted and Tryed, for stealing about 20 yards of Indian Silk, out of the Shop of one Francis Tryerwood proceedingsvictim a Mercer in Cornhill , under pretence of coming into his Shop to buy 4 or 5 yards; one of the three the mean while standing purdue, received it of the other two when they came out: but the Silk being missed they were pursued and all three of them taken. Upon their Tryals they strove to shift it off one to another, she that stood without pretending that the other were strangers to her, and that they only hired her to carry it for them, but they being notoriously known to be old Traders, the Jury found them all guilty of the Fellony.

[Death. See summary.]