Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
17th October 1681
John
Pack
proceedingsdefend
was indicted for
stealing a Horse
from one
William
Pack
proceedingsvictim
, living near Rochester in Kent, the which he brought up to London, and sold for about 4 pounds to one in Salsbury Court in Fleet-street, where upon Search, the Horse being found, he was apprehended, upon his Tryal he pleaded that the prosecutor being his Master
had lent him the Horse, but not being able to make it appear and having at the same time Robbed his said Master of several other goods, for which he broak open divers Chests. Upon the Courts directing that although the Fellony was committed in another County, yet the goods being found in London was a Fellony there, they found him
guilty
of the Fellony.
[Death. See summary.]