Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
7th December 1681
Horatius
Sellwood
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(of the Parish of St. Pancras
,) was Tryed for
breaking open the House of
Richard
Husbands
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, living in the Parish aforesaidon the 29 of October
last, and taking thence Cloaths, both Linnen and Woolen, and several Books, of a considerable value
, having formerly been a Servant
in the said House; one of the Evidence swore he met him that morning with them under his Coat, and not long after some of the Books being found where he had disposed of them to a Book-seller in More-fields, and not being able to give a satisfactory Account of his Life and Conversation, the Jury found him
Guilty
of the Felony and Burglary.
[Death. See summary.]