Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
6th September 1682
Hester
Wainwright
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was Indicted for
Robbing a
Gentlewoman
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in St. Andrews Holborn
, on the 6th of July
last, of a Mantua Gown, several Silk Petticoats, Linnen, wearing Apparel, and ten pounds eleven Shillings in Money
; the Gown and several other things being taken about her; she Pleaded that she took them up amongst her own Cloaths, and knew not but that they were her own till she came to open them; but it being proved that she Stole them, and wore the Gowns publickly, she was found
Guilty
.
[Death. See summary.]